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MEMOIR 



COL. JONATHAN EDDY, 



EDDIKGTOlSr, ME. 



WITH SOME ACCOUNT OP 



THE EDDY FAMILY, 



The Eaely Settlers on Penobscot River. 



BY 

JOSEPH W. PORTER, 

BURLINGTON, ME. 



AUGUSTA: 

SPRAGUE, OWEN & NASH, PRINTERS, 

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MEMOIK. 



Jonathan Eddy, born in 1726, was the son of Eleazer and 
Elizabeth (Cobb) Eddy of that part of the t(5wn of Norton, 
now Mansfield, Mass. His father dying while he was under 
twenty-one years of age, Jonathan Lincoln and John An- 
drews were appointed Nov. 7, 1739, guardians of Jonathan 
and of Obadiah and Oliver, his brothers, JTnd to "bind them 
out as apprentices until they come of age." June 11, 1748, 
the guardians' account was rendered, and the estate of their 
father was settled. From this time to 1755 Jonathan appears 
to have been in Norton. At that time he was an officer in 
Col. Wiuslow's Regiment at Nova Scotia. I have a fragment 
of an order book in his own hand-writing, the first date in 
which is June 22, 1755, and then to July 12, 1755, Camp at 
Fort Cumberland, N. S. I have, thus far, searched in vain 
in the Mass. Archives for muster rolls of his company. 

In 1758, he enlisted a company of troops for the War in 
Canada, under the following commission : 

" Province of the Massachusetts Bay. 

By His Excellency the Governor : 

I do hereby authorize and empower Captain Jonathan 
Eddy to beat his Drums any where within this Province, for 
inlisting volunteers for His Majesty's service, in a Regiment 
of Foot, to be forthwith raised and put under the command 
of Officers belonging to this Province for a General Invasion 
of Canada in conjunction with the King's British Troops and 
under the supreme command of His Majesty's Commander in 
Chief in America. 

And the Colonels, with the other officers of Regiments, 
within this Province, are hereby commanded not to give the 



said Jonathan Eddy any Obstruction or Molestation herein : 
but on the contrary to afibrd him all necessary Encourage- 
ment and Assistance : for which this is a sufficient Warrant. 

And the said Jonathan Eddy is hereby enjoined on Pain of 
my highest Displeasure, to return the names of the Men he 
shall inlist, and out of what particular Companies and Regi- 
ments they are inlisted, to Col. William Brattle, Adjutant 
General, on or before the 17th day of April next, that he 
may lay the same before Me. 

Given under My Hand at Boston, the 27th Day of March, 
1758, in the Thirty First year of His Majesty's Reign. 

Th: Pownal." 

In 1758 he raised a company for the Reduction of Canada, 
in a Regiment under the command of Thomas Doty, Esquire. 

"A Muster Roll of a company of foot in his Majesty's ser- 
vice, under the command of Captain Jonathan Eddy, in a 
Regiment raised by the Province of the Massachusetts Bay 
for the Reduction of Canada, whereof Thomas Doty, Esquire, 
is Colonel." Time of service from Mar. 13th to Dec. 10, 
1758: 

Jonathan Eddy, Esq., Capt., Norton. Bartholomew Burte, Private, Norton. 
Timothy Standley, Lieut., Attleboro. John Buck, Private, Gloucester. 



Noah Roberson, do 

Ebenezer Grover, Ensign. 
John King, 
James Gilbert, 
Ebenezer Swan, 
John Penney, 
John White, 
Amos Sweet, 
Elisha May, 
Jolni Briggs, 
Amos Newland, 
Elisha Briggs, 



Norton. Elijah Barney, 
do Samuel Bishop, 
Sargent, do Thomas Burton, 
do do Joseph Balcom, 

do Attleboro. Jeremiah Bisliop, 
do Norton. Solomon Briggs, 
Corporal, do Seth Cook, 
do Attleboro. Silas Cook, 
do do Jonatlian Cattell. 

do Norton. Stephen Carpenter, do 
do do Hezekiah Capron, 

Drummer, do Joseph Cummings, do 



Uriah Atherton, Private, Stoughton. Benjamin Cole, 

John Allen, Private, Easton. Abial Dunham, 

Dai'iet Austin, do Norton. Ichabod Dogget, 

Edward Babbit, do do M. Dogget, 

Neliemiali Briggs, do do 

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In the early part of 1759 he raised a company in Mansfield, 
Mass., and vicinity, for Col. Joseph Frye's Regiment, in 
which he served as Captain from April 2, 1759, to Sept. 30, 
1760. His Order Book from April 23d, 1759, to Dec. 31st, 
1759, I have, and from it, on the cover, I take the follmving : 
"April 11th, marched from home — (Mansfield) to Landlord 
Robson's, Stonghton ; 12th day, to Lieut. Bents, Milton; 
13tli day, to Castle William, and received our provision for 
70 men, it being the * * * marched on. We went on board 
the 21st day of April, and drew allowance the 23d day Deto." 

The Regular Order Book begins April 21st, 1759, "This 
dav Captains Eddy, Slocomb, Angier and Cheever, embarked 
on Board sundry Transports for Fort Cumberland." 

" April 22d. Capt. Eddy having a 3d time furnished his 
company Billeting Roll, went on shore to the Castle to receive 
the Billeting money ; (befoTe we departed from the Castle we 
were sundry times mustered by the Governor and Col. Bur- 
ton, attended with divers other regular officers, who not only 
reviewed us but also saAV that every man was properly accou- 
terred) in about two hours the Captain returned from the 
Castle, and brought word that the Billeting would be brought 
on board some time this Day." 

Ap. 24. "This morning about 9 o'clock, we and the whole 
fleet made sail after the signal made from the Commodore, 
Capt. Cobb, a Sloop of 8 guns. Wind S., the people in 
general sea-sick, and made very Dirty AYork." 

Ap. 25. "Came to anchor in Casco Bay." 

Ap. 28. "Pemaquidin sight. Served back allowance of 
Rum to the people." 

Ap. 29. "Monhagin on our Starboard side." 

May 1. "This day at noon, observed and found ourselves 
in Lattitude 43 — 47, one degree to the northward of Boston, 
the Commodore and 8 more of our Fleet astern of us, the 
rest of our Fleet we imagine to have put into Pemaquid." 

May 2. "The people down with the Measles." 



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May 3. " Came to an anchor at 6 o'clock in Bay, 

almost between the point and Isle of Holt." 

May 5. " At 6 this morning came too at Fort Cumberland, 
went ashore and lodged in Barns, the Regulars being in pos- 
session of the Barracks." 

May 9. " 7th Regulars left the Barracks abominable 
Dirty." 

May 23. "Whereas the Itch increases among the soldiers 
of this garrison, the officers are earnestly recommended to 
procure Brimstone, and what else may be necessary to cure 
and put a stop to it." 

June 17. "Last night arrived here. Sloop Sea Flower, 
with Government stores from Boston. Mr. Livermore the 
Suttler, Rev. Mr. Fage, Adjutant Mr. Wetherhead, were on 
board." 

June 22. "This evening Eleazer Everett of my company 
died after a long indisposition." 

June 30. "Divine Service to be attended once every 
Sunday by all in Garrison not on Duty." 

July 1 . " This day entertained with a discourse by Rev. 
Mr. Fage, from 5th chap. St. Luke's Gospel and 32d verse. 
This day week entertained by same Mr. Fage in a Discourse 
from Job, 30th chap, and 23d verse." 

July 3. "Rum is to be issued to the troops belonging to 
the province of Mass. Bay, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon." 

July 7. Order from Col. Frye : "Rum will not defend 
the Soldiers from the inclemency of ye weather nor the 
attacks of Stinging insects, with which this country very 
plentifully abounds, as clothes would, and besides too much 
strong water intoxicates the Brain." 

July 9. "This morning about 9 o'clock Captain Fhips 
arrived here from Halifax, and brought news that the Fleet 
sailed from Lewisburgh June 12th, with Mr. Allen and sun- 
dry other passengers." 

July 21. " Orders : Men shall not eat their molasses with 
their victuals but brew it into Beer." 



July 29. "Entertained to-day by Mr. Page with a Dis- 
course from Exodus, chap. 20 and 7th verse : Thou shall not 
take ye name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will 
not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in Vain." 

Sept. 20. Orders : " All non Commissioned Officers and 
private soldiers that go out shooting by vertue of the Tickets 
dated the 19th instant, are Daily to bring all the Game they 
kill in the Fort Parade, and what of it they dont want to eat 
themselves shall be exposed to sale in ye following manner : 
1st day the Commanding Officers and Captains shall be first 
in purchasing ; 2d day the Subb's shall be first, and so on 
from day to day, changing the preference as aforesaid." 

Sept. 30. " Officers and private soldiers having been ac- 
customed to gameing at cards in the Barracks, such gameing 
is forbidden and to be suppressed." 

Oct. 21. "Yesterday in the afternoon arrived sloops from 
Eastward, and brought the agreeable news of Canady's De- 
struction." 

Oct. 22. Orders : "All Sutlers are forbidden to sell any 
Spirituous Liquors to any of the Garrison this Day. At 12 
o'clock to-day 76 great guns were fired, as well for the King's 
Coronation day as the joyful news of our success at Canady, 
at which time every officer on the beat of the General met 
upon the Fort parade and Drank his Majesty's good health, 
&c., dureing the fireing, after which they sang God save the 
King; and they, with the whole Garrison who were all 
assembled, save those on duty and sick, gave three cheers, at 
which time 20 Gallons of Rum was made in good Toddy and 
given to the Soldiery. At night about 6 o'clock, from the 
alarm posts, every man discharged his Firelock three times, 
except some that did not go off, and then gave three cheers, 
which with illuminatino; all the windows in the Garrison 
belonging to the officers, concluded the Day." 

Oct. 31. "This morning Mr. Page and Mr. Livermore 
sailed for Boston with Capt. Innis." 

Dec. 31. "Future orders Continued and Carryed into a 
new Book begun January 1st, 1760." 



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Muster Koll of Captain Jonathan Eddy's Company in 

Colonel Joseph Frye's Regiment from April 2, 1759, to 

Sept. 30, 1760, at Fort Cumberland: 

Josiali King, Sergeant. John Knapp, 

Josiah Perry, Corporal. Moses Knapp, 

Ichabod Doggett, " Zephaniah Lane, 

Alexander Foster, " Nehemiah Lincoln, 

Eliphalet Briggs, Drummer. Benjamin Lewis, 

Peter Hopkins, Benoni Morse, 

David Austin, Zephaniali Morse, 

Joshua Austin, Jacob Newland, 

Elijah Barrows, Joseph Newland, 

John Bates, Thomas Nason, 

Geo. Brintal, Nathaniel Nason, 

Samuel Cobb, John Robinson, 

Samuel Day, David Eobinson, 

John Eddy, A. Robinson, 

Isaac Fisher, Robert Randall, 

Jona. Tolcott, Thos. Sweetland, 

Z. Franklin, . Penticost Stanley, 

John Folett, Amos Skinner, 

Josiah Gilbert, John Salmon, 

Job Gilbert, Daniel Torrey, 

Stephen Geary, Benjamin Tingley, 

John Gould, Eliphalet Thorpe, 

.Jacob Gould, William Wetherell, 

Peter Hopkins, Elijah Wetherell. 

William Hart, Silas Welman, (?) 

Samuel Hunt, Moses Ware, 

Eleazer Faxon, Z. Watkins. 
Abiel Knapp, 

Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 

1761. To Jonathan Eddy, Dr. 

£ s. d. 

To 20 days' expense allowed to make up this 

Roll, 1-6 1 10 

" 3 days' travel from Norton to Boston and back 

again at 4s 12 

*' 20 days' his not charged in Roll when making 

it up 6 8 7 

£8 10 07 
Boston, Feb. 3, 1761. Errors Excepted. 

Jona Eddy. 



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The Lieutenants in the Company were probably Macom- 
ber, Boyclen and Leonard. 

Above is the Muster Roll of those who served up to the 
time of final discharge — 30 Sept. 1760. 

I find in Capt. Eddy's Order Book the names of others 
who were of his Company, viz : John Horn drowned April 
30, 1759, on the way out. Eleazer Everett died. "John 
Bragg of my Co. went home Nov. 3d." " Serg. Witherell, 
Abiel Drake, Jonah Gay, Edward Fisher, went home Kov. 12, 
1759." "Sergeant Gilbert, Edward Blanchard, Stephen 
Franklin, Frd. Richardson and Benjamin Hall, went home 
Dec. 11th, 1759. 1759, Nov. 12, says "David Robinson 
went home without leave," but he appears to have returned, 
as his name was on Muster Roll when the Company was 
paid off. 

After his discharge in 1760, he remained at Norton until 
1763, when he was in Norton, calling himself of Cumberland, 
N. S., in a deed, — having emigrated with his family about 
that time. He bought lands at Fort Cumberland, some of 
which are now in possession of his descendants, (1876.) He 
was Deputy Provost Marshal and held other offices there, 
remaining until the breaking out of the Revolutionary War — 
when he fled to the United States, leaving his family behind 
— and March 27, 1776, he was at Gen. Washington's Head 
Quarters at Cambridge. See Washington's letter to Con- 
gress, dated March 27, 1776. Extract : 

" I beg leave to transmit to you the copy of a petition from 
the Inhabitants of Nova Scotia, brought to me by Jonathan 
Eddy, mentioned therein, who is now here with an Acadian ; 
from which it appears that they are in a distressed situation, 
and from Mr. Eddy's account they are exceedingly apprehen- 
sive that they will be reduced to the disagreeal)le alternative 
of taking up arms and joining our enemies or of fleeing their 
country, unless they can be protected ' against their insults 
and oppressions. He says that their committees think many 
salutary and valuable consequences would be derived from 



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five or six hundred men being sent there, as it would not only 
quiet the minds of the people from the anxiety and uneasiness 
they are now filled with, and enable them to take a part in 
behalf of the colonies, but be the means of preventing the 
Indians, of which there are a good many, from taking the 
side of the Government, and the ministerial troops from 
getting such supplies of provisions from them as they have 
done. How far these good purposes would be answered if 
such a force were sent as they ask for, it is impossible to de- 
.termine in the present uncertain state of things, for if the 
army from Boston is going to Halifax as reported by them 
before their departure, that or a much more considerable force 
would be of no avail ; if not, and they possess the friendly 
disposition to our cause suggested in the petition and declared 
by Mr. Eddy, it might be of great service unless another 
body of troops should be sent thither by administration too 
powerful for them to oppose, &c., &c. 
I have the Honor to be, &c." 

Capt. Eddy went to Philadelphia ; but Congress having more 
on its hands than it well knew how to attend to, declined 
to give him any assistance. Upon his return he called on his 
cousin, John Eddy, then living at Chatham, Conn. William- 
son's History of Maine, vol. 2, page 451, says : "But Jona- 
than Eddy, a native of Norton, Mass., who had resided ten 
years in the vicinity of Cumberland at the head of Chigneald 
Bay and was Sherifl* of the county, represented to the General 
Court that the garrison had been lessened from time to time, 
till the number remaining was only sufiicient to take care of 
the artillery and military stores ; and that in his opinion it 
might be easily taken by a small force. Though he in fact 
received no aid nor direct encouragement, yet he returned 
and projected a plan for taking the fort. To ascertain its 
true condition, he sent Capt. Zebulon Eowe, who visited 
and thoroughly examined it without exciting suspicion. Eddy 
next had the address by persuasive threats and promises of 
rewards to raise about one hundred and fifty men." 



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Williamson is in error in relation to the aid from Massachu- 
setts, as Col. Eddy^ by order of the General Court, Sept. 5, 
1776, then sitting at Watertown, received from the Commis- 
sary General of Massachusetts supplies of ammunition and 
provisions. 

[See Appendix A.] 

Col. John Allan, a refugee from Nova Scotia, and after- 
wards Superintendent of the Eastern Indians, on his way 
from Cumberland to Machias, met Col. Eddy on board a 
schooner with twenty-eight men, Aug. 13, in Machias Bay, 
and " endeavored to induce Col. Eddy to abandon his design, 
but without effect." Kidder His. of Rev. War in Eastern 
Maine, page 12, says that Col. Eddy was impressed with the 
belief that he should and must be successful, and proceeded 
on his way and made the attack. His offlcial report and also 
his letter to Col. Gorham, I give, copied from Kidder His., 
pp. 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74. 

Col. Eddy's Letter of January, 5, 1777. 

To the Hon. Council & House of Representatives of the State 

of Massachusetts Bay : 

I have endeavored to inform your Honors of some part of 
my Proceedings since my Departure from Boston. 

I left the long wharf in Boston together with Mr. Row and 
Mr. How, and arrived at NeAvbury the second Day, where 
we Chartered a small Vessel to carry us to Machias, at which 
Place we arrived (after Many Unfortunate Accidents) in 
about three weeks from the time of our setting out. During 
my Stay at Machias I met with Col. Shaw, by whose Favor I 
obtained Capt. West and several other good Men, to the 
amount of about Twenty, to join me in the Expedition against 
Fort Cumberland. Then Proceeded to Passamaquoddy where 
I was joined by a few more ; from thence to the River St. 
John's, and went up the same about sixty Miles to the Inhab- 
itants, whom I found almost universally to be hearty in the 
Cause, — and joined us with 1 Capt., 1 Lieut, and Twenty-five 
Men, as also 16 Indians ; so that our whole Force now, 



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amounted to Seventy two Men, and with this Party I set off 
for Cumberland in Whale Boats and Canoes, and standing up 
the Bay arrived in a few Days at Shepody in the sd County. 
At Shepody we found and took Capt. Wallser and a Party of 
thirteen Men, who had been stationed there hy Col. Gorham, 
Commander of the Garrison at Cumberland, for the Purpose 
of getting Intelligence, &c. Thence we Proceeded to Mem- 
rancook, and there had a Conference with the French, who 
Readily joined us, although they saw the weakness of our 
Party. We then marched 12 jNIiles through the woods to 
Sackville, and there were met by the Committee, who Ex- 
pressed their Uneasiness at seeing so few of us, and those 
unprovided with Artillery. Nevertheless, hoping that Col. 
Shaw would soon come to our Assistance with a Reinforce- 
ment, they unaniniously joined us. The same Xight I sent 
off a small Detachment who marched about 12 Miles through 
very bad Roads to Westcock, and there took a Schooner in 
Aulack River, loaded with Apples, Cyder, English Goods, 
&c., to the Amount of about £300, but finding afterwards 
that she was the Property of Mr. Hall of Annapolis, who is a 
good Friend to the Cause of Liberty, I discharged her. I 
afterwards sent another Boat Load of Men, as a Reinforce- 
ment to the first Party, making together about 30 JNIen, in 
Order to take a Sloop which lay on the Flats below the Fort, 
loaden with Provisions and other Necessaries for the Garri- 
son. After a Difficult March, thc}^ arrived opposite the 
Sloop, on board of which was a Guard of 1 Sergt, and 12 
men, who had they fir'd at our People, must have alarmed 
the Garrison in such a manner as to have brought them on 
their Backs. However our men rushed Resolutely towards 
the Sloop up to their knees in mud, which made such a noise 
as to alarm the Gentry, who hailed them and immediately 
called the Serg't of the Guard : The Serg't on coming up, 
Ordered his Men to fire, but was immediately told by Mr. 
Row that if they fired one Gun, Every Man of them should 
be put to Death, which so frightened the poor Devils that 
they surrendered without firing a Shot, although our People 



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Could not board her without the Assistance of the Conqiiered, 
who let down Ropes to our Men to get up by. By this Time 
the Day broke and the Rest of our party made to their 
Assistance in the Schooner aforementioned and some Boats. 
In the mean Time Came down several Parties of Soldiers 
from the Fort, not knowing the sloop was taken, as fiist as 
they came were made Prisoners by our Men, and order'd on 
board ; Among the Rest, Capt. Barron, Engineer of the 
Garrison, and Mr. Eagleson, who may be truly Called the 
Pest of Society, and by his unseasonable Drunkenness the 
evening before, prevented his own Escape, and occasioned 
his being taken in Arms. The Sloop now beginning to float 
and the Fog breaking away, we were discovered by the Gar- 
rison, who observing our Sails loose, thought at first it was 
done only with an Intent to dry them, but soon Perceiving 
that we were under way, fired several Cannon shot at us, and 
marched down a Party of 60 Men to attack us, but we were 
at such distance that all their Shot was of no Consequence. 

We then sailed to Fort Lawrence, another Part of the 
Township, and there landed Part of the Stores on board the 
Sloop to Enable us to attack the Garrison. 

Having left a small Guard on board the Sloop to secure the 
Prisoners, I marched the Remainder to Cumberland side of 
the River and Encamped within about one mile of the Fort, 
and was there joined by a Number of the Inhabitants, so that 
our whole force was now aljout 180 Men, but having several 
outposts to guard, and many Prisoners to take Care of, the 
Number that Remained in the Camp did not Exceed 80 men ; 
I now thought Proper to invest the Fort, and for this Purpose 
sent a summons to the Commanding Ofiicer to surrender, (a 
Copy of which, together with his Answer, I have Enclosed.) 

Upon Col. Gorham's Refusal to surrender we attempted to 
storm the Fort in the Night of the 12th Nov'r with our scal- 
ing Ladders and other Accoutrements, but finding the Fort to 
be stronger than we imagined, (occasioned by late Repairs) 
we thought fit to Relinquish our Design after a heavy firing 
from their Great Guns and small Arms, with Intermission for 



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2 hours, which we Sustained without any Loss, (Except one 
Indian being wounded) who behaved very gallantly, and Re- 
treated in good Order to our Camp. 

Our whole Force in this Attack Consisted of about 80 Men, 
while the Enemy were 100 strong in the Fort, as I learned 
since from some deserters who came over to us ; a greater 
number than we imagined. I must needs acquaint your 
Honors that Never Men behaved better than ours during the 
engagement — never flinching in the midst of a furious Can- 
nonade from the Enemy. 

In this Posture we Continued a Number of Days, and 
totally cut off their Communications with the Country, Keep- 
ing them closely block'd up within the Fort, which we Ex- 
pected to take in a little Time by the Assistance of a Rein- 
forcement from Westward. In the mean Time, on the 27th 
Nov'r, arrived in the Bay a Man of War, from Halifax, with 
a Reinforcement for the Garrison, consisting of near 400 Men, 
and landed on that and the day following. 

Nov. 30. The Enemy to the Number of 200 Came out in 
the Night by a round about March, got partly within our 
Guards, notwithstanding we had Scouts out all Night, and 
about Sunrise furiously Rushed upon the Barracks where our 
Men were quartered, who had but just Time Enough to 
Escape out of the Houses and run into the Bushes where, 
(notwithstanding the Surprise in which we were) our Men 
Killed and wounded 15 of the Enemy while we lost only one 
man, who was Killed in the Camp. 

In the midst of such a Tumult they at length proceeded 
about 6 Miles into the Country to the Place where they 
imagined our stores, &c., to be, and in the Course of their 
March burnt 12 Houses and 12 Barns, in some of which the 
greater Part of our Stores were deposited. In this Dilemma, 
My Party being greatly weakened by sending off many for 
Guards with the Prisoners, &c., and our Stores being Con- 
sumed, it was thought Proper by the Committee that we 
should Retreat to St. Johns River, and there make a stand 
till we could have some certain Intelligence from the West- 



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ward, which we hope we shall have in a short time by the 
Favor of the Committee, who are gone forwards. And as it 
appears to be the opinion of the Committee ot Cumberland 
and St. Johns Eiver that I should Remain here, I am deter- 
mined to make a Stand at this Place till I am drove off, which 
I believe will not be Easily done, unless the Enemy should 
send a Force from Halifax by Water on Purpose to subdue 
this Settlement, as I am continually Reinforced by People 
from Cumberland and the Neighboring Counties, so that I 
believe we shall be able to Repulse any Party that may be 
sent from the Garrison at Cumberland, though I imagine we 
shall not be troubled by any Irruption from them this Winter, 
as the Reinforcement is chiefly gone, having left only about 
200 Men in the Fort, and those in a bad Condition for the 
want of Clothing ; and if 200 men could be sent us by Land 
this winter we could Reduce the Garrison by cutting off their 
Supplies of wood, which they are obliged to go 8 or 9 Miles 
for through a Country full of small Spruce, Fir and such like 
Wood, Consequently very Convenient for us to lay an Am- 
bush, as we are perfectly acquainted and the Enemy Strangers 
thereto ; and this your Honors may easily Conceive, as we 
Destroyed a Number of Houses, the Property of Friends to 
each Side, which lay adjacent to the Fort, and the Command- 
ing Officer having given orders to pull them down and carry 
the Timber into the Fort for Firing, the Committee ordered 
me to Prevent it by firing them, which I did accordingly, and 
left them destitute of anything to burn within some Miles. 
On this River are a considerable Number of Indians, who are 
universally hearty in the Cause, 16 of whom, together with 
the Governor Ambrose, accompanied me in the Expedition 
and behaved most gallantly, but are a little uneasy that no 
Goods are yet arrived for them from Boston, agreeable to the 
late Treaty with them, which was Ratified by Coll. Shaw in 
Behalf of the States, and I should be very glad if your 
Honors would Satisfy them in this Point as soon as possible, 
as they have been Extremely faithful during this Contest ; 
and if this is done I am confident I can have near 200 of them 



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to join me in any Expedition against the Enemy. All my 
Transactions in this Affair have been done by the Authority 
of a Committee of Safety for the County of Cumberland, and 
many Diificulties having arisen for want of Commissions, I 
hope your Honors will send some blank ones for the raising 
of a Eegiment in this Province, if the Hon. Continental Con- 
gress should think fit to Carry on the War further in this 
Quarter, so that Proper Eegulations may be made and many 
disorderly actions prevented. I am, &c., 

Jonathan Eddy. 
Mangerville on the E. St. John, Jany. 5th, 1777. 

[See Appendix A.] 

To Joseph Gorham, Esq., Lieut. Colonel Commandt of the 
Eoyal Fencibles Americans, Commanding Fort Cumber- 
land : 

The already too plentifull Effusion of Human Blood in the 
UnhapiDy Contest between Great Britain and the Colonies, 
calls on every one engag'd on either side, to use their utmost 
efforts to prevent the Unnatural Carnage, but the Importance 
of the Cause on the side of America has made War necessary, 
and its Consequences, though in some Cases shocking, are 
yet unavoidable. But to Evidence that the virtues of human- 
ity are carefully attended to, to temper the Fortitude of a 
Soldier, I have to summon you in the Name of the United 
Colonies to surrender the Fort now under your Command, to 
the Army sent under me by the States of America. I do 
promise that if you Surrender Yourselves as Prisoners of 
War you may depend upon being treated with the utmost 
Civilit}^ and kind Treatment ; if you refuse, I am determined 
to storme the Fort, and you must abide the consequences. 

Youi; answer is expected in four Hours after you receive 
this and the Flag to Eeturn safe. 

I am Sir Your most obedt Hble Servt 

Jona.Eddy 



Commanding Officer of the United Forces. 



Nov. 10, 1776. 



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"Ft Cumberland 10th Novr 1776. 

Sir — I acknowledge the receipt of a Letter (under coular 
of a Flagg of Truce) Signed by one Jona'n Eddy, Command- 
ing officer, expressing a concern at the unhappy Contest at 
present Subsisting between great Britain and the Colonys, 
and recommending those engaged on either side to use their 
Endeavors to prevent the too Plentifull eflusion of human 
Blood, and further summoning the Commanding officer to 
surrender this Garrison. From the Commencement of these 
Contest I have felt for my deluded Brother Subjects and 
Countrymen of America and for the many Innocent people 
they have wantonly Involved in the Horrors of an Unnatural 
Rebellion, and entertain every humane principle as well as an 
utter aversion to the unnecessary effusion of Christian Blood. 
Therefore command you in his Majesty's name to disarm 
yourself and party Immediately and Surrender to the King's 
mercy, and further desire you would communicate the In- 
closed Manifests to as many of the Inhabitants you can and 
as speedily as possible, to prevent their being involved in the 
Same dangerous and Unhappy dilema. 

Be assured Sir I shall never dishonour the Character of a 
Soldier by Surrendering my command to any Power except 
to that of my Sovereign from whence it orignated. 
I am Sir Your most hble servt 

Jos. GoRHAM Lt Col. Com'at 

R. F. A. Commanding Officer 

at Fort Cumberland." 

I here give a copy of a Memorial he addressed to the Gen- 
eral Court in 1783, which gives his views of his success : 

" Commonwealth of Massachusetts — ^to the Honourable the 
Senate and House of Representatives assembled, the Petition 
of Jonathan Eddy Humbly sheweth that your Petitioner in 
the year 1776, September the 5th, did by order of the Hon- 
ored Court then sitting at Watertown, Receive from the 
Comissary General supplies of Provision and ammunition, in 
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order to ena]>le hiui with a Party to annoy the Enemies of 
the United States, for which your Petitioner with otl^ers gave 
tlieir security to account for when called upon ; and as your 
Petitioner conceaves the intent and meaning of the Resolve 
was that he should expend it that way, therefore after the 
above supply, did proceed to the Eastward Shore and did 
capture fifty six British soldiers, including two captains, one 
surgeon, one church minister — besides thirteen killed, and 
brot of seven that Deserted to us ; all of which, excepting the 
Dead, were brot into this State, and many of the Privates 
enlisted into the service of the United States, the two Cap- 
tains and several of the others were Exchanged for Prisoners 
captured from the United States and carryed into Halifax. 
Besides that morover was the means of keeping near two 
thousand of the Enemy at Halifax for a considerable space, 
after so that that the States had not so many to incounter 
with at New York ; and as your Petitioner is Confident the 
Provision and ammunition was Expended for the (purpose) 
it was designed for ; and as your Petitioner does not Request 
any thing for his own time and expences at Present, yet 
Huml)ly requests this Honorable Plouse would order that the 
above ol)ligations may be (cancelled) or such other ways 
made void as you in your wisdom shall think best. 

(1783) JoNA. Eddy." 

The Government of Nova Scotia had learned his boldness 
and perseverance, and endeavored to capture him by offer of 
large rewards. 

"At a Council holden at Halifax on the 17th Nov., 1776. 
Present the Honoral)le the Lieut. Governor, the Hon. Charles 
Morris, Richard Bulkly, Henry Morton, Jonathan Binney, 
Arthur Goold, John Butler. 

" On certain Intelligence having been received that Jona- 
than Eddy, William Howe and Samuel Rogers have l)een to 
the utmost of their power exciting and stirring up disaffection 
and rebellion among the people of the county of Cumber- 
land, and are actually before the fort at Cumberland with a 



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considerable numl^er of rebels from New England, together 
with some Acadians and Indians. It was therefore resolved 
to offer £200 for apprehending Jonathan Eddy and £100 for 
each of the others, so that they be brought to justice. Also 
£100 for apprehending of John Allan, who has been deeply 
concerned in exciting the said rebellion." 

"In June, 1777 an expedition was undertaken for the relief 
of the people upon the River St. John and upon the borders 
of the Bay of Fundy, who were friendly to the United States, 
and who were reported to be harrassed or oppressed by 
British emissaries. It was prol^ably projected through the 
importunity of .Tonathan Eddy and his lu*ave fugitive com- 
panions, who still believed Fort Cumberland could be easily 
taken. ThoaG:h the consent of Confess was obtained, the 
plan, the outfit, and the expense all attached to Massachu- 
setts. * * * * j^Yii there arose unexpected difficulties 
in the prosecution of the plan, which occasioned delays and 
finally an entire abandonment of the enterprise in its original 
form." (Williamson His. of Maine, Vol. 2, p. 458.) 

The Council of Massachusetts Bay seemed to have undi- 
minished confidence in the ability of Col. Eddy, for I can 
find no other person named who w^as to command the expedi- 
tion excejit him. He was at Machias, Aug. 12, with a 
Regimental organization, supplies, &c. He was also present 
at Machias when that place was attacked by the British Fleet 
Aug. 13, 14, 15, 1777, and appears to have been in cofjimand. 
Reports concerning the Battle were made by Col. John Allan, 
Col. Benjamin Foster, Maj. George Stillman, and by Col. 
Edd}^ to the Council of the State of Massachusetts Bay. In 
the reports of Allan, Foster and Stillman, no authority was 
claimed by them, while that of Col. Eddy's seems to T)e the 
Report of the Officer in command at the Battle. It is passing 
strange that in all the published accounts of it, and in the 
centennial celebration at Machias, May 20, 1863, no mention 
was made of the name of the officer probably in command at 
at that most important affair. 



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I give a copy of Col. Eddy's official report copied from the 
original in the Massachusetts Archives, and which is in some 
resjjects the most full and comj)lete account written ; 

"Machias, Aug. 17, 1777. 
To the Hon. Councel of the State of Massachusetts Bay : 
Since my last acquainting your Honors with the Intelligence 

1 had rec'd concerning the Enemy's Design of invading this 
place we have found the realities of it. Last Wednesday the 
13th inst appeared in sight three ships a Brig and small 
Schooner coming from the Westward and standing in for the 
Harbor and soon after came to Anchor. One of them was a 
large Ship supposed to be the Rainbow of 44 guns the Mil- 
ford 28 the Vulture 14 and the armed Brig Hope G. Con- 
ceiving great Hopes of taking us by surprise the Hope stood 
immediately up the River attended by a Sloop and twelve 
boats till they came opposite to a small Battery we had about 

2 miles below the fVills manned with about twenty men with 
small arms and one 2 pounder. The Enemy attempted to 
land there with 6 boats and about 2 or 300 men, but failed, 
for our men repulsed them with some loss. Early on Thurs- 
day morning it being thick foggy weather they landed a little 
below the Battery on a neck of clear land in hopes of cutting 
oiF the retreat of our small Party but Col. Foster there took 
such Precautions in that point as rendered their hopes abor- 
tive and secured his return. The Enemy then took Posses- 
sion of Ihe Battery and burnt 2 houses and barns thereabouts, 
and soon after the Brig stood up the river together with the 
Sloop and Boats above mentioned till they came fairly in 
sight and within good shot of the Falls not expecting to meet 
with any resistance but seeing Continental Colors flying and 
two Breast Works fill'd with men' one of them having 2 2 
pounders, the other one 2 pounder and 6 swivels they began 
to think of retreating and accordingly got the Boats ahead to 
tow the Brig down. This was about sunset. I instantly 
detached Maj. Stillman with 30 men to attack the Boats and 
harass the Enemy on their retreat. The Major proceeded by 
Land till he got abreast of the Brig and Boats about a mile 



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and a half below the Falls and began a heavy fire which was 
warmly returned for some time from the Brig with Cannon 
and small arms. The affair continued in this Posture till 
they came opposite the Battery which they had taken at first, 
where the Brig came to an anchor the Boats not being able 
any longer to keep ahead because of the incessant fire of our 
people which as the Kiver is pretty narrow must do consid- 
erable Execution among the Boats. Next morning she got 
under way again with the Boats ahead and were again attacked 
by our men on both sides of the River but finally got down 
out of reach of small arms (but soon) ran aground so that 
she was left dry at Low water our people got one of the 2 
pounders down and began to play upon her in this Position 
and hulled her several times. It is very unfortunate that we 
had not 1 or 2 good pieces of Cannon as hy that means the 
Brig must have struck to us. However, having lightened her 
with the help of the Sloop, she got ofi" the next high water 
and dropped down to the other ships, and this morning the 
whole came. to sail and went out except the Milford. Their 
destination is unknown to us as yet but I shall take care to 
inform your honors as soon as I can procure any intelligence 
thereof. I must beg leave to Request an immediate supply 
of amunition and provisions as what I brought with me will 
last but a little while having been obliged to expend a good 
deal in this three days siege. In all these attacks our loss is 
only 1 man killed and Capt. Farnsworth of my Regiment 
wounded but hope he will do well. Great praise is due Col. 
Foster and the militia under his command who grave me all 
the assistance I could desire and behaved extremely well, 
as also to Maj. Stillman and the rest of the ofiicers and men 
belonging to the 2 Regiments now raising. It happened ex- 
tremely well for us that Mr. Allen and Mr. Preble had arrived 
with about 40 Indians who were of great service to us and 
assisted us greatly. The Enemy's loss in all these attacks 
must have been pretty considerable though we cannot at 
present come to any certainty of it. For further particulars 



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I refer you to Lieut. Col. Campl^ell who has been very alert 
on this occasion and given us all the assistance in his power 
from the western settlements. 

I am with Respect your Honors Most Obedient Huml>le 
Servant. 

JoisA. Eddy." 

A Committee of the Town of Machias, Aug. 25, 1777, 
addressed Col. Eddy the following letter : 

" Sir : The Inhabitants of Machias in town meeting 
assembled, are informed that the expedition to St. Johns in 
Nova Scotia is laid aside and that you have orders (to dis- 
charge) all the men belonging to your Regiment. We sup- 
posed when the Court pass'd that resolve they had no appre- 
hension of our being attacked hy our Enemies, but you are 
an eye witness to the late attack made upon us, and of their 
defeat and are also sensible that by all the information we 
can obtain that they are retired to collect a Superior force with 
a determination to destroy this place ; We the Subscribers are 
by the Inhabitants of Machias in their said meeting chosen as 
a Committee to wait upon you and request of you not to dis- 
charge any one of the enlisted men belonging to yoUr Regi- 
ment but to consign them over to ]\Iajor Stillman and to assure 
you that the Inhabitants of this place will be answerable for 
their pay and support. 

We are sir with Esteem your most Obed't Humble Servants. 

Stephen Jones, 
Benj. Foster, 
Geo. Stillman, 
Jonas Farnswortii, 
Stephen Smith. 
To Col. Jona. Eddy, Commanding." 

"The Deposition of Colonel Jonathan Eddy who testifieth 
and saith that on the 14th day of August 1777 he being at 
Machias and being commanding officer there and at the same 



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time the place was beset by the enemy the said Deponent 
asked Mr. Allan Superintendent of the Eastern Indians to 
take his arms and head the Indians he immediately Replyed 
that he had not taken up arms as yet and did not Desire to 
and further saith not. Jonathan Eddy." 

"Suffolk, ss. July 7, 1779. Then Jonathan Eddy person- 
ally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above declara- 
tion before me. 

Joseph Greenleaf, Justice peace." 

As there has been some controversy as to who was in com- 
mand at Machias, I here insert a communication printed in 
the Machias (Me.) Republican, April 7, 1877, which covers 
the whole ground : 

Col. Jonathan Eddy. 
To the Editor of the Republican: 

I have 3^our paper of Jan. 6, 1877, containing an interest- 
ing reply to my article of Nov. 25th, .1876, by George H. 
Allan, Esq., of Boston. I have delayed an answer in the 
hope that I might be able to examine some papers in the 
Archives of Massachusetts, which bear materially on the case, 
but that at present I cannot do. I honor my friend Allan for 
the jealous care with which he guards the reputation of his 
noble and patriotic ancestor, Col. John Allan, who was, up 
to the period we write of, Superintendent of the Eastern 
Indians. I have no controversy with him — I only wish to 
bring out the facts. One good will come out of this, and that 
is, that the old town of Machias will stand some chance to 
get its due in the history of the country. 

Was Col. Jonathan Eddy in command at the battle of 
Machias in August, 1777? I affirm that he was, for the fol- 
lowing reasons, and I will re-state them as briefly as I can, 
with such additions as I may have at hand. Col. Eddy was 
at Machias at the time with a Regimental organization, offi- 
cers, soldiers and supplies, on his way to St. John's river 
and Nova Scotia with another expedition. I know not how 



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many men he had ; he was at the time recruiting men to fill 
up his regiment. I copy from original papers now before 
me : 

"Boston, Sept. 18, 1777. We the subscribers do acknowl- 
edge to have Rec'd of Col. Jona. Eddy in behalf of the Pay- 
master of the Reo^iment the several sums set ao-ainst our 
names in full, for our and our companies for services done in 
the Regiment under the command of the said Jonathan Eddy 
Esquire. Witness our hands. 

Capt. Nath. Reynolds, £78 2 8 

Zebulon Row, 49 6 7 

Anthony Burk, 55 8 8 

Bartholomew York, 75 19 6 

Jonas Farnsworth, (not in full) 19 4 5 

. "Boston, Feb. 10, 1778. Rec. of Col. Jona. Eddy, Ten 
pounds, six shillings & sixpence ; and also rec'd of Col. Alex. 
Campbell, Twenty-one pounds, twelve shillings, it being in 
full of the wages Due me for being in the State Service in 
said Eddy's Regiment the summer past. 

Jonas Farnsworth." 

It was a respectable organization. Lieut. Col. Nevers was 
his officer ; Elijah Ayer was his Quarter Master. I copy from 
original papers : 

"Machias, Aug. 14, 1777. Then rec'd of Elijah Ayer, 
Quarter Master of the Troops in Machias, four stands of arms 
for to be made use in my Militia for the Defence of the 
American States. Benj. Foster." 

"Return of Provisions for James Avery for his Ration 
from 20th July to the 18th Day of August is four weeks. 
Machias, Aug. 11, 1777. Jas. Avery. 

Jas. Avery begs Col. Eddy will give order that he might 
draw his Provision, the 20th July was the day he arrived at 
Machias." 

Five Captains and Companies and a pay roll of over three 
hundred pounds ; a large sum for those days. Mr. Allan 
says: "As Col. Eddy's Regiment formed a portion of the 
St. John's expedition and was disbanded when that enter- 
prise was given up. Col. Allen, the commander of that expe- 
dition, must have been the first in command at the battle of 
Machias." I put Allan in 1777 against Allen in 1877. In 



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e 
Col. Allan's letter dated Machias Sept. 22, 1777, in Kidder's 
most valuable history, page 229, he says : * * * "The 
Letter which came to Col. Eddy, (after Col. Eddy had left, 
J. w. p.) it being on public service, I recommended Maj. 
Stillman to open, when we found some Blank Commissions ; 
had our situation been more peaceable I would have advised 
them to be immediately filled up. But the appointing such 
officers as might be thought necessary would give umbrage to 
others who might so influence the men as to occasion distur- 
bance which at present appears our business to prevent — 
Besides it is thought requisite to delay filling them up at 
present as our orders comes so immediately to Col. Eddy 
who was offered the command.'''' 

What Command ? Where ? Also see Col. Allan's Letter 
Machias Aug. 17, 1777, (Kidder, page 211)"* * *I have 
apply 'd to Col. Eddy to call a Court Martial to inquire in the 
conduct of officers and others in the expedition to St. John 
&c." See Col. Allan's letter Aug. 27, (Kidder, page 214) 
" * * * I waited upon Col. Eddy and prayed him not to be 
so sudden in discharging his men * * * * but he appeared 
inflexible and was resolved to follow the orders and instruc- 
tions of the Brigadier &c." This is not the language of a 
commanding officer ! See Col. Allan's letter Aug. 27, 1777 
(Kidder, page 213) "* * * On the 22nd inst. a boy lately 
belonging to the Hancock was sent on shore with a letter for 
exchange of prisoners. Col. Eddy (no doubt for wise 
reasons) thought best not to answer it." If Col. Eddy was 
not in command why were these proposals for an exchange of 
prisoners referred to him? Do these extracts show Mr. Allan 
to have been first in Command ? Do they not show the con- 
trary ? The inhabitants of Machias had a town meeting Aug. 
25, 1777, and chose a Committee of five of their first men, 
and instructed them to request Col. "Jonathan Eddy com- 
manding " not to discharge his men. Col. Eddy in his official 
Report of Aug. 17, 1777, claims the command, and the Report 
sounds very much like the report of a commanding officer. 



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He was also recognized by the Government after the expedi- 
tion to St. John was abandoned, by its sending him bhmk 
Commissions for some purpose. In no other report or letter 
written at that time was it claimed that any other officer had 
the command. In Col. Eddy's deposition July 7, 1779, he 
testifies that he was "commanding officer" there. As to the 
criticisms upon Col. Eddy relating to any former period, I 
have only to say that he appears to have had the continued 
confidence of the Government, which gave him, if not the 
command of the expedition, the command of a Regiment 
therein ! Mr. Allan comes down upon me with the crushing 
statement that " except what appears in his own letter I do 
not find that Col. Eddy was really in the Battle." I submit 
that what I have written "goes to show that Col. Eddy was in 
the Battle and was " commanding officer." 

But to turn the tables, was Col. Allan in the Battle? If 
so, where is the proof? Where is the proof that he had any 
military command recognized there at that time, or a soldier 
under his orders? In what is called Col. Allan's Diary, writ- 
ten by Lieut. Fred Delesdernier, under date of Machias, Oct. 
11, 1777, (See Kidder, page 142) is written, " yesterda}^ Mr. 
Allan took command of the military, having received a 
colonel's commission for that purpose." And in a note at the 
bottom of same page Mr. Kidder adds " previous to this it is 
probable he had l^een mainly acting as Superintendent of the 
Indians, although he was appointed a Colonel by the j\Iass. 
government six months previous." There is no proof that at 
that time he was acting in any other capacity than Superin- 
tendent of the Eastern Indians. Snme of those Indians took 
part in the Battle. In his letter of Aug. 17, 1777, (Kidder, 
page 204) he says " * * * I embody 'd the Indians between 
Forty and Fifty. After I had spoken to them upon the mat- 
ter they very cheerfully ^vent on Service down the River." 
In same letter (page 206) " * * * At 10 o'clock Captain 
Smith with a number of white men and all the Indians set off 
&c." Col. Eddy says in his official report : " It happened 



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extremely well for us that Mr, Allan and Mr. Preble had 
arrived with about 40 Indians who were of great service &c." 
Col. Eddy in his Deposition before Justice Greenleaf, July 7, 
1779, says he asked Mr. Allan, Siqjerintendent of the East- 
ern Indians, "to take his arms and head his Indians, which he 
refused to do." Rev. Seth Noble, minister and soldier at the 
Battle of Machias, afterwards first settled minister of Bangor, 
testified under oath, also before Justice Greenleaf at Boston 
July 7, 1779, that at the Battle of Machias, Aug. 14,. 1777, 
"Mr. John Allan, Superintendent of the Eastern Indians, 
appeared without arms. Col, Eddy desired him to take his 
arms and head his Indians which he refused to do." The 
italics in this article are mine. In view of what I have 
written it seems to me that there can be but one opinion , as 
to ivho was the "oflicer commanding " at the Battle of Machias, 
Aug. 1777. 

\ J. W. Porter. 
Burlington, March 20th, 1877. 

After the attack on Machias, Col. Eddy returned to Mans- 
field, Mass., where he resided until 1781, when he removed 
to Sharon, Mass. 

1781, Nov. 5. The town of Sharon "Voted not to receive 
as an inhabitant any of the persons hereafter mentioned who 
have come into the town to reside — Col. Jonathan Eddy and 
family from Nova Scotia and others." It was then the cus- 
tom to pass such a vote to prevent the town being liable for 
support of persons coming in. In this case, the people of 
Sharon soon recovered from any fear upon that point, for 
May 16, 1782, "At a meeting of the Freeholders, Col. 
Jona. Eddy was chosen to represent them at the Great and 
General Court of Commonwealth of Mass. for the ensuing 
year." 

Aug. 9, 1782. "Voted that Col. Jonathan Eddy be ap- 
pointed to join the other towns in advising and making a 
passage for ye fish called ale wives, shad and other fish passing 
up Neponset Eiver." 



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1783, May 12. "Colonel Jonathan Eddy was chosen to 
represent them at the Great and General Court." He was 
taxed m Sharon 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784. 

In 1784, he resolved to emigrate to Mahie, and wrote the 
following letter to the inhabitants of Sharon : 
" To the Inhabitants of the town of Sharon — 

Gent the many singular favours bestowed on me since I 
had my Residence in this town — Demand my warmest 
acknowledgement and was I to be silent on the matter it 
would be a piece of ingratitude and shew that I was Destitute 
of humanity, but with the sincerest pleasure I return you my 
hearty thanks : Ever wishing that the most permanent 
Blessings without which no people can be happy may ever 
Rest on the inhabitants of the town of Sharon, but as the 
unnatural war which we have had have Deprived me of 
almost all my living, yet since the Blessings of peace has been 
Restored to this Coimtry, I am now inclined to Retire to 
some of the uncultivated parts of the Commonwealth, where 
with economy, industry and frugality, with a Blessing attend- 
ing my Endeavors I may still hope for a Comfortable Support 
for my self and family, wherefore I must now take my leave 
of the town well assuring them that I shall Ever Rest their 
assured friend and well wisher. Subscribing myself at the 
same time Gent your most obedient 

and very humble servant 

May 12, 1784. Jona Eddy." 

In August of 1784, Col. Eddy with his family removed to 
Township No. Ten, east side of Penobscot river, at the head 
of the tide. This township was afterwards known as Eddy- 
town Plantation and incorporated into the town of Eddington 
1811 — named in compliment to Col. Eddy. 

[See Appexdix A.] 

Williamson's History of Maine, vol. 2, page 515, saj^s 
"Jonathan Eddy and his companions had during the war 
manifested so ardent and laudable an attachment to the Amer- 



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ican cause that Congress (1785) moved by their merits and 
sufferings particularly recommended their condition to the 
attention and humanity of Massachusetts. Hence the govern- 
ment granted to twenty of them several lots of land of differ- 
ent sizes, making an aggregate of nine thousand acres to be 
located in one body. 

In 1758 Governor Pownal came to Penobscot river to locate 
Forts, &c. He came up the river to a point supposed to be 
near the mouth of the Kenduskeag,. and as he relates in his 
diary : 

"Landed on the East Side the River with 136 men and 
proceeded to the head of the first Falls about four and a 
quarter from the first Ledge. Clear Land on the left for near 
four miles. * * * At the Head of the Falls — Buried a 
Leaden Plate with the following inscription: "May 23, 
1758. Province of Massachusetts Bay — Dominions of Great 
Britain, — ^Possession confirmed by T. Pownal, Govr. Erected 
a Flag Staff, — Hoisted the King's Colors and Saluted them." 
(See Me. His. Soc. Coll. VI, page 335.) 

In consequence of this act of Gov. Pownal, the territory 
between Penobscot and St. Croix was saved to the United 
States by the Treaty of 1783. 

The precise spot where Gov. Pownal buried his plate and 
took possession, was without doubt upon the land of Col. 
Eddy which he received under this grant, and where he after- 
wards lived and died. 

In 1785 he bought the first vessel ever owned on "Penobscot 
River," the Schooner Blackbird. Her Register signed by 
John Avery, Jr., Secretary, and Countersigned by John 
cock, Governor of Mass., says she was built at Beverly, 
1780, and sold by Peter Coffin, Jr., of Gloucester, May 16, 
1785, to Messrs. Stephen & Ralph Cross of Newburyport, 
and by them sold about first of November, 1785, to Col. 
Eddy. She was probably a fisherman, and made several 
voyages to Grand Manan after Col. Eddy owned her. 



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He was chairman of the committee appointed to employ the 
first minister settled on Penobscot River, Rev. Seth Noble, 
June 7, 1786. 

[See Appendix C] 

He was the first Magistrate on "Penobscot River." 
June 19, 1790. He was appointed by Governor John 
Hancock "A Special Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, 
a Register of Probate and Wills and a Justice of the Peace 
and Quorum for the County of Penobscot," and qualified for 
all those ofiices by Col. Paul Dudley Sargent and Judge 
William Vinal. 

1792, Feb. 25. He issued his warrant to Capt. James 
DM Cis>U FfMgn, calling a Meeting of Inhabitants to organize the Town 
of Bangor. 

[See Appendix D.] 

1796, Aug. Took Acknowledgement of Treaty between 
Mass. Commissioners and the seven chiefs of the Penobscot 
Tribe of Indians. 

1800. He was appointed Postmaster at Eddyton PL, a 
Post route having been established there. 

[See Appendix E.] 

In 1801 Cons^ress granted land to the Refugees from New 
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Col. Eddy receiving as his share 
1,280 acres, receiving four warrants therefor, signed by 
Thomas JeiFerson, President, James Madison, Sec. of State, 
dated May 7, 1^02. These lands were in the Chillicotha 
District, Ohio. 

[See Appendix R and P.] 

His business as elustiee was large. The numl^er of mar- 
riages solemnized by him were numerous. 

[See Appendix G.] 

Col. Eddy after a long, useful and eventful life, died in 
August, 1804, aged 78 years. 



EDDY GENEALOGY. 



mumn (^Mij(, liar.* 



Rev. William Eddy, A. M,, >vas Vicar of Craiibrook County 
of Kent in England, of Saint Dunston's cliurcli, from 15<S9 to 
1616. He was a gentleman of much method and order in all 
his movements in the Parish. He was a strict Episcopalian 
and did very much for his church and parishioners. All the 
loose registers of the parish dating back from 1588, were 
collected, arranged and properly entered by him in a new 
parchment Ijook purchased by him for the express purpose. 
For this service he was paid by the Parish the sum of £4. 
He beautifully engrossed about eighty of its folio pages 
besides illuminating others. The records are now (1859) in 
a good state of preservation. On one page therein is the 
following entry : " Paid that was spent in charges 'riding to 
Canterbury for to carry in the first money gathered here for 
Virginia." 

He married Mary Foster, Nov. 20th, 1587, and among 
other children had 

Sauiuel. born 1G08, who came to Plymouth, Mass., 1630. 

SamueP Eddy, son of Rev. William Eddy, died at Swanzey, 
1688 ; m. Elizabeth , who died 1681-82. 

He came to Plymouth in ship Handmaid October, 1630, 
where he bought a house and land of Experience jNIitchell 
May 9, 1631. He was taxed in Plymouth from 1632 to 1688. 
The latter part of his life he resided with his sons in Middle- 

* The autograpli of WiUiam Eddye, Vicar, was copied from the old Parish Registers 
at St. Dunstou's, July 30, 1859, by R. H. Eddy, Esq., No. 76 State Street, Boston. 



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boro and Swanzej^ In a deed made near the time of his 
death he names his residence as of Plymouth. 

"In 1651, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Eddy, arraigned for 
wringing and hanging out her clothes on Lord's Day, fine 
twenty shillings remitted." Old Colony Records. 

"In K) 60, Elizabeth Eddy summoned for travelling from 
Plymouth to Boston on Lord's Day — fined and held." 

Their children were : 

1 i John,* born Dec. 25, 1637. 

2 ii Zecheriah,* 1639. 

3 iii Caleb,** 1643. 

4 iv Obadiah,^ 1645. 

5 V Haunali,^ June 23, 1647. 

1 John' Eddy, born Plymouth Dec. 25, 1637, was a 
carpenter and lived in Taunton. He married first, Susanna 
Paddock, Nov. 12, 1665; she died Mar. 14, 1671. He mar- 
ried second. Deliverance Owen of Braintree, May 1, 1672. 
He was a large Land owner in Taunton, and died there Nov. 
27, 1695 — his widow Deliverance surviving him many years, 

having married again Smith. Inventory of his Estate 

sworn to by widow Deliverance, Dec. 14, 1695. 

Aug. 12, 1696. Estate divided, "To Deliverance Eddy, 
wife, and her son Jonathan and two of her daughters, Susanna 
and Patience, to Ebenezer, eldest son, Eleazer, second son, 
Joseph, Mary Reed, eldest daughter, Mercy Fisher, second 
daughter, and Hannah." 

6 i Maiy,-^ born Mar. 14, 1667 ; married Reed. 

7 ii John, Jan. 19, 1670. 

8^iii Mercy, July 5, 1673 ; m. David Fisher of Taunton, Feb. 7, 1695. 

9 iv Hannah, Dec. 6. 1676. 
10 V Ebenezer, May 16, 1679. 
ll^vi Eleazer, Oct. 16, 1681. 

12 vii Joseph, Jan. 4. 1683. 

13 viii Jonathan. Dec. 15. 1689. 

14 ix Susanna, Sept. 18, 1692. 

15 X Patience, June 27, 1696. 

3 Zecheriah* Eddy, born 1639 ; married Alice, daughter 
of Robert Paddock, May 7, 1663. He was of Plymouth, 



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Middleboro and Swanzey, where he died Sept. 4, 1718. His 
children were : 

16 i Zecheriah,3 b. April 10, 16G4. 

17 ii Jolin,^ Oct. 10. 1666. 

18 iii Elizabeth,^ August 3, 1670; m. Samuel Whipple of Providence,. 

Feb. 26, 1691. 

19 iv Samuel,^ June 4, 1673. 

20 V Ebenezer,^ Feb. 8, 1676. 

21 vi Caleb,^ Sept. 21, 1678. 

22 vii Joshua,^ Feb. 21, 1681. 

23 viii Obacliab,^ Sept. 2, 1683. 

All of whom had families except Samuel. 

3 Caleb = Eddy, born 1643 ; wife Elizabeth , lived 

in Swanzey, married a Deacon, and died March 23, 1713. 
His children were : 

24 i Caleb,^ b. May 29, 1672. 

25 ii Samuel,^ July 15, 1675. 

26 iii Zecheriah,^ died soon. 

4: Obadiah' Eddy, born 1645, in Pljnuouth ; wife . 

His children were : 

27 i John,* b. March 22, 1670. 

28 ii Hazadiah,* April 10, 1672. 

7 John' Eddy of John' of Samuel,* born Taunton Jan. 

19, 1670 ; wife Hepsibah . He died at Tisbury, May 

27, 1715, his widow died May 3, 1726. In his will he men- 
tions daughters Abigail, Hannah Manter, and Beulah Coffin. 

10 Ebenezer» Eddy, (of John') born May 16, 1679, in 
Taunton; married Mary Fisher, 1702. 

In 1706 he sold Joseph Eddy a purchase right. April 7, 
1713, he sold land in Norton. In 1720 he sold land to Eleazer 
Eddy, " both of Norton, and sons of John Eddy of Taunton, 
deceased." In 1727 he sold land to son Ichabod. In 1730, 
February 11, sold land in Norton to Thomas Morey. In 1756, 
June 30, testified at Taunton, being then in 78th year of his 
age. December 9, 1756, spoken of as deceased. Died at 
3 



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Norton, Mass., between June 30 and December 9, 1756. His 
children were : 

29 i Eleazer," b. Feb. 2, 1703. 

30 ii Marjs* Nov. 22. 1704. 

81 iii Ebenezer,* April 16, 1707. 

32 iv Sarah, ^ May 9, 1705 ; died June 14 same year. 

33 V Jeremiah,'' Feb, 28, 1709. 

34 vi Obadiah,* March 16, 1711 ; deceased young. 

35 vii Samuel,'' August 24, 1712. 

36 viii Waitstill," April 4, 1715; m. Cornelius Tucker, Nov. 3, 1735. 

37 ix Ichabod.'' 

11 Eleazer,' (of John' of SamiieP) born Taunton, Oct. 
16, 1681. He probably married first, Elizabeth Randall in 
Taunton, March 27, 1701, and second, Elizabeth Cobb of 
Taunton, Feb. 6, 1723, by Rev. Joseph Avery. He was of 
that part of Taunton afterward Norton, then Mansfield. 

Dec. 20, 1727, he sold land to his son Caleb Eddy of Nor- 
ton, for Q6 pounds. March 26, 1739, Eleazer Eddy of 
Norton relinquishes rights in estate of honored father John 
Eddy of Taunton, to Joseph Eddy of Taunton, naming his 
honored mother. Deliverance Smith, in the deed. He made 
his will when about 59 years of age, Nov. 7, 1739, proved 
Jan. 15, 1740. "He gave to eldest son John, who liveth at 
Colchester, Conn., to second son Caleb all my carpenter's 
tools, 3d son Eleazer, 4th son Joshua, Obadiah, Jonathan and 
Oliver not 21 years of age. Jonathan to have new west end 
of house." 

Inventory of Eleazer Eddy of Norton, Jan. 2, 1740. Whole 
amount of estate £417, 08d. lid. ; among other articles, best 
suit clothes, £26 ; Hat, two pounds, 10s ; Wig, 30 shillings ; 
Silver Shoe Buckles, 28 shillings ; Dog, five shillings. In 
1740 Jonathan Lincoln and John Andrews appointed Guar- 
dians of Obadiah, Jonathan and Oliver Eddy, to bind them 
out as apprentices until they come of age. Guardian account 
rendered June 11, 1748. The children were : 

38 i John.* 

39 ii Caleb.* 

40 iii Eleazer.'' 



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41 iv Joshua.* 

42 V Obadiah." 

43 vi Jonathan.* 

44 vii Oliver.* 

45 viii Elizabeth ; m. Penney. 

46 ix Hannah; m. Robert Miller of Rehoboth, March 7, 1726. 

47 X Charity; m. Baker. 

The early records of Taunton having been burned many 
years since, no dates of birth of children can be found. 

12 Joseph" Eddy of John,' born in Taunton Jan. 4, 1683. 

Wife Abigail , probably lived in Taunton. 1732, 

Feb. 5, Joseph Eddy of Taunton, bought land of Jonathan 
Eddy of Taunton ; deed witnessed by Joseph Eddy Jr. and 
Azariah Eddy. 

13 Jonathan' of John,' born in Taunton Dec. 15, 1689; 
probably lived in Taunton. 1740, Feb. 18, Jonathan Eddy, 
cooper, of Taunton, for 250 pounds, — part of which I had 
when I gave a deed of my honored father's homestead, the 
rest well and truly received by Joseph Eddy of Taunton — 
mentions brother John, who had died in Outicroft ( ?) island. 

24 Caleb" Eddy of Caleb,' born May 29, 1672 ; married 
Bethiah Smith of Swanzey in Taunton in 1713. He lived in 
Swanzey. 

31 Ebenezer* Eddy of Ebenezer,' born April 16, 1707 ; 
married Martha Leonard of Bridge water, 1734. He and wife 
joined church in Norton, 1755. Their children were : 

49 i Mary,* b. April, 1737. 

50 ii Martha,^ Jan 16, 1739. 

51 iii Ebenezer,* May 3, 1743. 

52 iv Ephraim,* April 1, 1745. 

53 V Moses,* April 4, 1747. 

54 vi Deborah,* May 14, 1750. 

53 Samuel* Eddy of Ebenezer,' born August 24, 1712, 
died before 1761 ; married Sarah Page of Rehoboth April 10, 



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1733, by Kev. Mr. Avery of Norton. He lived in Norton. 
His children were : 

55 i Sarah,* b. 29 Dec, 1735. 

56 ii Hannah,* 4 June, 1739. 

57 iii Charity,* 4 June, 1739. 

58 iv Samuel.* 31 Jan.. 1741. 

59 V Suueon,* 30 Dec., 1742. 

60 vi Freelove,* 10 Sept., 1744. 

61 vii Anna,* 25 May, 1746. 

62 viii Comfort,* 25 June, 1748. 

37 Ichabod* Eddy of Ebenezer," born , lived in 

Norton; married Joanna Herndon Feb. 9, 1727. 
Son John, b. Feb. 8, 1728. 

Wife baptised and joined church in Norton, 1727. 
In 1727, Ebenezer Eddy of Norton, sold land to son 
Ichabod. 

39 Caleb* Eddy, son of Eleazer,' of Norton ; wife Judith. 
His father deeded him land in Norton, 1727. Bought land 
of brother Jonathan Eddy Nov. 5, 1763. His children were : 

63 i Rachel,* b. June 23, 1738 ; died 1739. 

64 ii Abiel,* April 5, 1740. 

65 iii Caleb,* Jan. 25, 1742. 

66 iv Benaiah,* Dec. 28, 1744. 
66i V Abiathar,* June 16, 1746. 

67 vi Mary,* Sept. 10, 1748. 

68 vii John,* Jan. 25, 1751. 

69 viii Elijah,* August 2, 1752. 

42 Obadiah* Eddy of Eleazer,' of Norton ; married Lois 
Hicks of Taunton, July 20, 1744. His children were : 

70 i Ephraim,* b. Nov. 17. 1744. 

71 iii James,* Jan. 12, 1746. 

72 iv Obadiah,* March 10, 1751. 

43 Jonathan* Eddy of Eleazer,'' born 1726-7; married 
Mary, daughter of Dr. William Ware, May 4, 1749, by 
George Leonard, Esq. 

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June 22, 1748, bought a house of George Leonard, Esq. 
for £50. 1755, Feb. 18, Jona. Eddy of Norton, bought land 
of Robert Cook of Norton, near land of heirs of Ebenezer 
Eddy. 1756, Jona. Eddy of Norton, gentleman, sold land to 
Samuel Newcomb of Norton; wife Mary signed. 1761, Oct. 
23, Jona, Eddy of Norton, sold land in Norton to Elkanah 
Lincoln of Norton, bounded on one side by land belonging to 
land of heirs of Samuel Eddy, deceased. 1762, April 7, 
Jona. Eddy of Norton, sold to Edmund Hodges land in 
old township of Taunton, undivided, originally belonging to 
John Macomber. 1762, June 21, Jonathan Eddy of Norton, 
for £266 13 shillings, sold land to Samuel Hunt and Nehe- 
miah Lincoln, both of Norton — in Norton, bounded on one 
side by land of Caleb Eddy; wife Mary signed. 1762, 
Aug. 6, Nehemiah Lincoln and Samuel Hunt both of Norton, 
having jointly bought homestead farm of Captain Jonathan 
Eddy, divided it. 1763, Nov. 5, Jonathan Eddy of Cumber- 
land, N. S., gentleman, sold Caleb Eddy of Norton, undivided 
land in old township of Taunton, originally owned by John 
Macomber and formerly owned by Ebenezer Eddy, late of 
Norton, deceased; before George Leonard, Esq., in Norton, 
Nov. 5, 1763. In 1765, he sold Abial Atwood of Oxford, a 
negro wench, for 40 pounds. [Mem. When he removed to 
Maine, he brought a negro man with him, "Black Jack;" 
whether he was a slave or not, I do not know. If so, he was 
probably the only slave owned on Penobscot river. Maj. 
Robert Treat charged Col. Eddy in account Mar. 4, 1788, to 
upsetting an axe for "Black Jack."] In 1767, Feb. 27, 
bought land in Cumberland, N. S. In 1769, Feb. 14, sold 
land in Cumberland as Provost Marshal . After Revolutionary 
war settled in Sharon, Mass. Taxed there 1781-2-3-4. 
April 17, 1781, Elkanah Hickson sold Jonathan Eddy of 
Nova Scotia, estate with dwelling house and barn, for 135 
pounds, in Stoughtonham — now Sharon, Mass. Paid Nath. 
Billings 1020 pounds in full for work at Stoughtonham fur- 
nace. In 1780, bought of Samuel Forest, Jr., "one Bing of 
Coal, 1100 Bushels, for 3,000 pounds, near Meletiah Ware's 



in Foxboroiigh." 1782, May 8, sold Ebenezer Richardson, 
farmer, land in Stoughtonham, for 437 Spanish milled dollars. 
1785, May 17, Jonathan Eddy of Sharon, for 10() pounds, 
sold James Perrigo of Wrentham, Mass., two pieces of land 
in Wrentham, one of 45 acres, one of six acres, Jonathan 
Ware witness to deed. His children, all born in what is now 
Mansfield, Mass., were: 

73 i Jonathan,^ b. Jan. 28, 1750. 

74 ii William,^ August 16, 1752, 

75 iii Ibrook,* Jan. 9, 1754. 

76 iv Elias,^ Nov. 30, 1757. 

Col. Jonathan Eddy died August, 1804, se. 78 ; Widow 
Mary Eddy died 1814. 

■44: Oliver* Eddy of Eleazer,' of Seabrook county of New 
London, Conn., sold land and house in Norton, "which my 
father, Eleazer Eddy, gave me in his will, Dec 2, 1751." 

73 Jonathan* Eddy Jr. of Jonathan,* born in Mansfield, 
Jan. 28, 1750; married Rebecca Hicks. He was cast away 
in the Bay of Fundy 1808. His widow was living in Sack- 
ville, N. B., 1848. 

[See Appendix I.] 

74 Lieut. William* Eddy of Jonathan,* born in Mans- 
field, Aug. 16, 1752 ; married Olive Morse. He was a Lieut 
in the Continental Army, and was killed by a shot from a 
British frigate while in an open boat near Eastport, May 3, 
1778. He had one son : 

77 i William Jr. b. in Sackville, N. S., (now N. B.) July 1, 1775. 

" Sept. 27, 1777, a flag of truce was granted to bring from 
Nova Scotia the family of William Eddy." 

75 Ibrook* Eddy of Jonathan,* born in Mansfield, Mass., 
Jan. 9, 1754. He married Lona, daughter of Samuel 
Pratt, 2d, of Mansfield, Nov. 2d, 1778 ; she born May 6, 
1760. He went to Nova Scotia with his father in 1764, and 



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was one of the refugees from that Province during the Eevo- 
lutionary War, for which he received a grant of land in what 
is now Eddington, Me. He was a Deputy Sheriff in Bristol 
county, Mass., and resided in Mansfield until about 1785, 
when he removed to Maine to what is now Eddington. First 
wife died about 1802. He married second, Celia Wilde. 
He died Jan., 1834, and his second wife died May 23, 1842. 
His children, all of first wife, were : 

78 i Jonathan,** b. Mansfield Jan. 31, 1780; died young. 

79 ii Experience,® do June 5, 1782 ; died July 10, 1791. 

80 iii Ware,® do May 3, 1784. 

81 iv Nancy,® Eddington. August 8, 1786 ; m. Daniel Collins. 
2 V Eachel,® do Feb. 22, 1788; m. Moses Collins. • 

83 vi Eleazer,® * do Oct. 10, 1789 ; in. Sylvia Campbell. 

84 vii Abagail,® do Sept. 29, 1791 ; m. Moses Knapp. 

85 viii Mary,® do Nov. 26, 1793 ; m. Jesse Comins. 

86 ix Sylvia,® do August 21, 1796; m. Beriah Clapp. 

87 X Experience,® do April 19, 1800; m. George Crane. 

76 Elias Eddy* of Jonathan,* born in Mansfield, Nov. 30, 
1757 ; married Mary Fales. He lived and died in Eddington, 
Me. Their children were : 

88 i Lovina, m. Nath. Hinckley of Buffalo, N. Y. 

89 ii Betsey, ra. Rev. Elisha Bedel. 

90 iii Oliver, m. Widow Gates Hathorn of Eddington ; her maiden name 

w^as Mann. 

91 iv William, went to New York about 1816. 

92 v Experience, m. Capt. Wright Stockwell of Eddington. 

93 vi Mary, m. Rev. Abraham Bedel of Camden, 1832 ; since of Gardiner. 

94 vii Edward, was brought up by his uncle, Ibrook Eddy ; and was 

drowned near where the corporation mills now are at Veazie, 
Me., in 1817. 

* Angelina, daughter of Eleazer, born in Eddington, Me., August 5, 1818; died in 
Burlington, Me., April 22, 1869; married Charles S. Richardson (son of Ezra) of Bur- 
lington, Me., in 1836. He born in Jay, Me., Feb. 14, 1813. Their children all born 
in Burlington. 

George A., b. Oct. 1, 1837; drowned July 14, 1856. 

James M., March 12, 1839; died April 11, 1839. 

Charles R., Dec. 31, 1840 ; married, lives in Bradley, Me. 

Charlotte E., July 6, 1844; died August 22, 1830. 

Prancetta S., June 23, 1847; died August 15, 1852. 

Edwin M., April 11, 1849; died August 22, 1850. 

Prank W., June 15, 1851. 

Adda M., April 1, 1853; married Eben Piles of Gorham, Me. 



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77 William* Eddy, Jr., of William,* born Sackville, 
N. S., (now N. B.) July 1, 1775 ; died in Corinth, Me., Jan. 
22, 1852 ; married in Eddington, Rachel P. Knapp, November 
17, 1796, by Rev. Seth Noble. She was born in Mansfield, 
Mass., May 22, 1779, and died in Corinth July 11, 1869, 
aged 90 years. 

I here give an article from the Bangor Jefiersonian of Feb. 
10, 1852, probably written by Hon. Noah Barker.* Their 
children were : 

*DiED. In Corinth, on the 22d ult., William Eddy, Esq., aged 76 yra., 6 mos. and 
22 days. 

His death was occasioned by his falling through the flooring of a scaffold over the 
beams of his barn to the threshing-floor, a distance of 18 feet; breaking several of his 
bones, and causing other injuries, from which he died in a few hours after he was 
found. He was alone at the time of the accident, and was not discovered until about 
three hours, as is supposed, after the sad and painful occurrence. 

Mr. Eddy was a native of Sackville, N. B., formerly " Fort Lawrence," and in the 
vicinity of " Fort Cumberland," to which place his father, and grandfather, the late 
Col. Jonathan Eddy, removed from Norton, Mass., soon after the close of the French 
War. Col. Eddy had served in that War, and in 1754, assisted in erecting the fortifi- 
cations on the Kennebec river, called "Fort Halifax," and "Fort Western." At the 
commencement of the War of the Revolution, the father and grandfather of Mr. Eddy, 
being among the many families then living in the Province who were connected by 
the ties of consanguinity or interest with the people of Massachusetts, and who hoped 
to see that Province a member of the American Confederacy, espoused the cause of 
Liberty, and were both, subsequently, ofiBeers of the army, commissioned by the 
authority of Massachusetts. Living as they did in the enemy's country, their service 
became of much importance to the American cause. Among their bold and hazardous 
exploits, was that of attacking a vessel of 100 tons as she lay aground, in the harbor, 
and making a prize of her! She was richly laden with supplies and military stores 
for the garrison. These they conveyed to Boston. Exasperated at these " outrages," 
as they termed them, the Provincials became desperate, and offered a reward for the 
heads of the "rebels," and wantonly set fire to their dwellings. Finding that there 
was no other alternative, the patriots were compelled to leave their families in the 
extreme depths of distress, and, in the severities of winter, flee through the wilderness 
to Machias, where "they successfully arrived, half-naked and famished, having been 
■in the woods twenty-five days." The following spring, while Lieut. Wm. Eddy, the 
. father of the subject of this sketch, was on his way to the Province, with the intention 
of bringing away his family, he was recognized by a Provincial, fired upon and mor- 
tally wounded, while sailing in an open boat near Eastport, to which place his body 
was stealthily conveyed by one of the patriots — the father of the late Hon. William 
Delosdernier, of Baileyville — and his remains were interred by him in his own garden 
at Eastport. Mr. Eddy was thus loft an orphan in the third year of his age. These 
circumstances are related to show the foundation of those habits of industry which 
characterized him in after life. Becoming early inured to hardships and privations, 
he soon learned to depend solely upon his own exertions for obtaining the means of 



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95 i Jonathan Maynard, b. Eddington, Oct. 22, 1797. 



96 ii 


Olive M., 


do 


August 15, 1799, 


97 iii 


Willard, 


do 


May 24, 1801. 


98 iv 


Roxanna, 


do 


August 16, 1803, 


99 V 


Sjivester, 


do 


Oct. 21, 1805. 


100 vi 


Temperance B., 


do 


Feb. 9, 1815. 



101 vii Maria L., Corinth, July 27, ISIS. 

102 viii Charles K., do Dec. 29, 1820. 

80 Ware^ Eddy of Ibrook,* born in Mansfield, Mass., 
May 3, 1784, died Eddington, November 20, 1852. Married 
first, Nancy Clapp by Park Holland, Esq., 1809; she was 
born Walpole, Mass., May 3, 1784, died March 23, 1829. 
Married second, Olive Foster, by Luther Eaton, Esq., April 
11, 1830; she was born in Winthrop, Me., March 3, 1800. 
His children, all born in Eddington, were : 

103 i Jonathan, b. August 1, 1811. 

104 ii Lucy Clapp, August 3, 1813 ; m. Horace Blackman Nov. 27, 1835. 

105 iii Lona Pratt, July 15. 1815 ; died July 23, 1818. 

106 iv Celia Wilde, Sept. 10, 1817 ; m. Edwin Eddy Jan. 23, 1840. 

107 V Darius W., August 17, 1819. 

108 vi Mercy Wilde, June 28, 1821 ; died July 4, 1821. 

109 vii Lona Pratt, August 31, 1822; died March 17, 1824. 

110 viii Nancy Clapp, Dec. 22, 1824; m. Newell Avery Jan. 3, 1843. 

111 ix Eliza Holland, Feb. 27, 1827 ; m. Sewall Avery May 13, 1849. 

112 X Cyrus, Nov. 8, 1830. 

113 xi Ware, April 6, 1834. 

114 xii Marion, Sept. 4, 1838 ; m. Ezra Richardson Dec. 1, 1865. Died 

at Saginaw, Mich., April 10, 1867. 

115 xiii Lavinia, Sept. 2, 1842 ; m. Henry Foster Nov. 20, 1852. 

83 Eleazer* of Ibrook,* born in Eddington, Oct. 10, 1790 ; 
died March 13, 1826, aged 36. Lived in Eddington, Me. 

subsistence and has ever been noted for his untiring perseverence. At the age of 
thirteen, Mr. Eddy bade adieu to the Province, leaving behind him his mother, an 
only brother and sister, and came to Eddington, a portion of which township had been 
granted by Massachusetts to his grandfather and others, in consideration of their ser- 
vices in the Revolution. In the autumn of 1792, Mr. E. assisted in closing up the 
survey of the " twenty-one townships " west of the Penobscot river, and lying between 
the Waldo patent aiid the Piscataquis. 

He married soon after, and settled in Eddington, where, with an increasing family, 
he resided till Jan. 1818, when he removed to Corinth, where by industry and frugality 
he has accumulated a valuable estate, and has ever been esteemed a worthy and re- 
spectable citizen; and dies much lamented, not only by his family, who are thus 
called to mourn his sudden exit, but by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. 



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Married Sylvia, daughter of Thomas and Sahara (Knapp) 
Campbell, March 20, 1814. She was born Nov. 14, 1793 ; 
died April 30, 1860. Their children were : 

116 i Timothy, b. Feb. 12, 1815. 

117 ii Edwin, Jan. 18, 1817. 

118 iii Angelina, August, 1818, 

119 Iv Eleazer P., \ Twins. Died Oct. 7, 1834. 

120 V Henry C, j born May 24, 1821 ; died August 2, 1856. 

121 vi Sabara, August 29, 1823 ; m. Wm. E. Hanson. 

122 vii Ware, August 31, 1835 ; m. Mary E. Doten. 

Widow Sylvia Eddy married Ezra Eichardson of Burling- 
ton, Maine, April 30, 1860, by whom she had : 

Mary Ann, b. Feb. 1, 1832; died July 9, 1854. 

Cordelia P., Nov. 28, 1833; died Dec. 19, 1833. 

Lloyd Quiney, May 11, 1835 ; m. Mrs. Mary Taylor, June, 1866. 

Ezra, Nov. 7, 1838 ; m. Marion P. Eddy, Dec. 1, 1865. 

Esquire Richardson died June 14, 1838, and his widow 
April 30, 1860. 

90 Oliver* of Elias* Eddy; married widow Gates Hath- 
orn, her maiden name being Mann. He lived in Eddington 
and died during the war of 1812, leaving two children, Curtis 
Eddy and Charles Eddy. 

95 Jonathan M.'' of William,* born in Eddington Oct. 
22, 1797 ; married Eliza Morrill of Cornville, Me., April 3, 
1825. She was born Jan. 20, 1798 ; died August 5, 1876. 
Their children are : 

123 i Henry M., b. Corinth, Jan. 16, 1826; m. Adelia A. Gammon, Sept. 

29, 1853. 

124 ii Lucia Ann, Corinth, August 16, 1832; m. Dr. E. A. Thompson of 

Dover, Me., May 13, 1858. 

125 iii John Nelson, August 26, 1837 ; m, Emily G. Huestis, Nov. 19, 

1868. Resides in Chicago. 

96 Olive' M. Eddy of William,* born in Eddington, 
August 15, 1799, died Dec. 24, 1857 ; married Samuel K. 
Campbell, May 10, 1820. 



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126 i Emeline,8 b. Dec. 27, 1820 ; died 1821. 

127 ii Benjamin'* F., August 22, 1822; m, Clara R. Bryant, Feb. 7, 1847. 

128 iii Olive^ F., Corinth, Dec. 8, 1855. 

129 iv Clara* A.. Dec. 12, 1857. 

130 V Hattie* B., Nov. 27, 1860; died Feb. 22, 1861. 

131 vi Frank* M., June 19. 1864. 
182 vii Charles* K., June 19, 1866. 

97 Willard' Eddy of William,* born in Eddiugton May 
24, 1801, died in Corinth June 10, 1866; married Elizabeth 
Goodwin of St. Albans, April 9, 1828. Their children were : 

133 i Olive Jane, b. March 4. 1830 : m. Virgil Brown Jan., 1849. 

134 ii Sophronia, March 21, 1834; m. Rev. Porter M. Vinton, August, 

1860. 

135 iii Mary E., June 21, 1860; m. Geo. P. Hueston, April 16, 1861. 

98 Roxana'' Eddy of William,* born in Eddington, Aug. 
16, 1803 ; married John Campbell of Corinth, Feb. 10, 

1831. Several children died in infancy. 
Martin, b. June, 1837 ; m. Sarah J. Daniels May, 1860. 

99 Sylvester'' of William,* born in Eddington, Oct. 21, 
1805. First, married Almira Goodwin of St. Albans, Jan. 6, 
1836; she died Dec. 11, 1869. Second, married Mrs. 
Mehitable Williams, Dec. 17, 1871 ; she born Ossipee, N. H., 
Sept. 13, 1828. He lives in Corinth. His children are : 

136 i Francis* A., b. March 3, 1838 ; m. George V. Blackman Sept. 1859. 

137 ii Hannibal* H.. July 5, 1840 : m. Mary Burnhara May 4, 1870. 

138 iii Holmau* J., Sept. 19, 1847 ; m. Eliza Devers April 29,' 1876. 

139 iv Hiram* E., March 21, 1850. 

100 Temperance^ of William,* born Feb. 9, 1815, in 
Eddington; married Hon. Noah Barker Dec. 29, 1839, he 
born in Exeter, Me., Nov. 14, 1807. Their children are ; 

140 1 George* Barker, b. in Exeter June 1, 1841; m. Mary E. Latham 

Sept. 2, 1868, in St. George, N. B. She born in Greenfield, Me., 
Feb., 1851. Resides in Presque Isle. 

141 ii Charles* v., b. in Exeter Sept. 22, 1848; m. Lzizie E. Folsom of 

Exeter, Me., Dec. 1, 1872. She born in Exeter, Me., April 11, 
1853, and died there July, 1875, leaving one child, Noah V. Barker. 
- The father resides in Chicago, 111. 



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142 iii William E., April 18, 1852. Resides with parents on old homestead 

at Corinth. 

143 iv Nellie Arethusa, b. July 22, 1858. 

101 Maria' L. Eddy of William/ born in Corinth, 
July 27, 1818 ; married Thos. J. Haines of Levant, May 22, 
1853. He born in Portsmouth Nov. 25, 1816. Lives in 
Corinth, Me. Their children are : 

William T., b. August 7, 1855. 

Fred A., Sept. 12, 1859; d. Dec. 6, 1863. 

Frank E., Sept. 2, 1861. 

103 Charles' K. of William,* born in Corinth, Dec. 29, 
1820 ; married Albina, daughter of Col. John Dunning of 
Charleston, July 31. 1853. Their children are : 

Walter Stanley, b. Corinth, June 17, 1855. 

Arthur Dunning, Ottawa, Canada, July 27, 1861. 

Charles Kirk, Saginaw, Michigan, August, 1867. 

Lila, Saginaw, Michigan, 1S70 ; resides East Saginaw, Mich. 

103 Col. Jonathan' Eddy of Ware,' born in Eddington, 
August 12, 1811 ; died in Bangor, August 24, 1865, aged 54 
years, 23 days. Married Caroline, daughter of Amos and 
Sally (Ballard) Bailey of Milford, March 5, 1839 ; Mrs Eddy 
born in Milford, July 9, 1819. 

[See Appendix Q.] 

Their children are : 

i Laura** M., b. Bradley, August 12, 1840; m. Edward E. Parker of 
Bangor, Oct. 19, 1864, and has two children. 

ii Sarah* Bailey, Bradley, August 3, 1842; d. Feb. 25, 1862. 

iii Caroline^ M., Bradley, Oct. 11, 1844; m. Charles L. Hamblen ot 
Boston, June 22, 1865, and has two children. 

iv Frederic* A., Bradley, August 23, 1846. 

V John® Franklin, Bangor, Feb. 23, 1848; m. Lottie Whittemore of 
Rome, N. Y. ; has two children. Resides in Bay City, Michigan. 

vi Charles* F., Bangor, March 21. 1852; m. Elizabeth Genu of Bucks- 
port, Jan. 28, 1874, and has two children. 

vii NewelP Avery, Bangor, May 20, 1856 ; now in Yale College. 

Moved from Bradley to Bangor in spring of 1847. 



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107 Darius^ of Ware/ born August 17, 1819; married 
first, Eliza Blackmail of Bradley, March 5, 1849, she died 
March 5, 1854; married second, Elizabeth C. Tapley in Old- 
town, Feb. 13, 1855, she born in Brooksville Sept. 7, 1833. 
Children : 

i Eliza B., b. Milford, Dec. 2, 1855. 

ii Etta M., do Jan. 27, 1860. 

iii Edwin H., do Nov. 8, 1863. 

iv Walter D., Bangor, Jan. 6, 1870. 

Removed from Milford to Bangor in 1870. 

117 Edwin^ of Eleazer,^ born Jan. 18, 1817; married 
Celia W. Eddy of Ware, Jan. 23, 1840, she born Sept. 10, 
1817. Their children were : 

George C, b. Jan. 24, 1841 ; died Feb. 20, 1843. 

143 Nancy M., August 14, 1842; m. Temple E. Dorr, Feb. 8, 1866. 
Ellen A., Nov. 3, 1843; m. Augustus Clark, Jan. 28, 1867; daughter b. 

April 27, 1846, died May 24, 1846. 

144 Selwyn, March 25, 1847; m. Cornelia C. Hall, Sept. 21, 1869. 

145 Charles A., March 15, 1849; m. Harriet L. Lane, Dec. 26, 1871. 
Lucy E., April 14, 1851, died June 23, 1870. 

Children all born in Bradley, Me. Removed from Bradley, 
Me., to Saginaw, Mich., December, 1863. 

110 Newall Avery, born in Jeifersou, Me., Oct. 12, 
1817, died March 13, 1877 ; married Nancy Clapp Eddy' at 
Bradley, Me., Jan. 3, 1843. Subjoined is a paragraph from 
Bangor Whig.* Their children are : 

* A telegram announcing the death of Hon. Newell Avery, of Detroit, Michigan, 
in that city, Tuesday evening, March 13, after a very short illness, was received on 
that evening by his relatives in this city. 

Mr. Avery was formerly a resident of Bradley. He came there when a young man 
from his home in Jefferson, near Augusta. While a resident of Bradley and for 
several years after his removal to the West, he was a member of the firm of Eddy, 
Murphy & Co., of this city. He left this State for Michigan about twenty-five years 
since, and has since been ono of the largest operators in lumber and land in the West. 
He was a member of the firm of Avery & Murphy of Detroit, Avery, Murphy & Co., 
of Chicago, and Eddy, Avery & Co., of East Saginaw, and he was also in company 
with many others from this State mostly. Mr. Avery in his business has by his 
sagacity and close application been very successful. 



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Edward O., b. Bradley, Me., Oct. 23, 1844; m. Flora Huntington, Sept. 
14, 1869. 

Darius N., Bradley, Jan. 10, 1846; m. Elizabeth, daughter of Chas E. 
Dole, Bangor, Me., June 24, 1873. 

Leonard C, Bradley, Oct. 18, 1847, died 1853. 

Clara A., do Jan. 12, 1850. 

Nannie M., do May 16, 1852. 

George E., Port Huron, Mich., April 18, 1854. 

John H., Bradley, Me., July 29, 1855. 

Horace W., Port Huron, April 12, 1858. 

Nellie J., do April 27, 1860. 

Infant, do 1862, died 1862. 

Arthur Ware, do 1863, died 1864. 

Kitty M., do 1866. died 1867. 

Harry E., Detroit, Mich., Dec. 3, 1867. 

Ill Sewell Avery, b. Jefferson, Me., Feb. 2, 1824; 
married Eliza H. Eddy' at Bradley, Me., May 3, 1849. 

Children are : 

Waldo A., b. in Bradley, May 14, 1850; m. Nellie C. Lee, at Saginaw, 
Mich., Feb. 18, 1871. Children— Sewell Lee, b. Saginaw, Nov. 4, 1873; 
Aria S., Saginaw, May 11, 1875. 

Ara L., Bradley, March 16, 1853; m. Herbert C. Sanborn, at Saginaw, 
Oct. 30, 1873. Child— Herbert W., b. August 15, 1874. 

Idella E., Bradley, Nov. 16, 1854, 

Lulie E., Bradley, Oct. 19, 1859. 

Lives in East Saginaw, Mich. 

118 Angeline^ Eddy of Eleazer,* born August, 1818; 
married Charles S. Richardson of Burlington, deceased. 

143 Nancy M.' of Edwin," born August 14, 1842 ; mar- 
ried Temple E. Dorr, Feb. 8, 1866. Children : 
Earth E., b. April 17, 1873. 
Cora M., May 29, 1874. 
Florence C, May 30, 1876. 



He was loved and respected by all who knew him, ever ready and more than willing 
to extend a helping hand to all worthy persons, kind hearted, genial, upright and 
honorable ; he leaves behind him as the most precious possession of his children — his 
untarnished name and bright record in every walk of life. 

Except that he was for one year Mayor of Port Huron, where he lived the first 
twelve years or so after moving to Michigan, we think he has never held public office, 
the cares of his extensive business requiring all his time, but he has always taken 
great interest in public affairs and was one of the prominent members of the Repub- 
lican party in Michigan. 



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144 Selwin' of Edwin/ born March 25, 1847 ; married 
Cornelius C. Hall Sept. 21, 1869. Children : 

Clara F., b. Feb. 14, 1873. 

Ella M., April 18, 1875 * 

145 Charles A." of Edwin,' born March 15, 1849 ; mar- 
ried Harriet L. Lane Dec. 26, 1871. Children : 

Lottie C, b. March 4, 1873. 
Flora E., Nov. 18, 1874. 



APPENDIXES. 



A. 

A Eate Bill for the Plantation called Eddinton, on Penob- 
scot River, for the year 1791. 

Residents, Tax. • Non Residents, Tax. 

s. d. s. d. 

James ISTiohols. 4 1 Phineas Nevers, deceased, 8 3 

Eleazer Blackmail, 2 10 Ebenezer Gardner, 8 3 

Widow McMahon, 1 10 Zebuloii Row, 6 3 

Stephen Bussell, 3 6 William Maxwell, 6 3 

Patrick McMahany, 2 8 Eoliert Foster, 2 8 

Patience Hill, 1 4 Parker Clark, 3 7 

Daniel Mann, 2 2 Atwood Fales, 3 ' 5 

Samuel Grant, 1 4 Elijah Eayres, 3 1 

Stephen Grant, 2 6 Eev. Seth Noble, 2 5 

Alex Grant, 1 7 Samuel Eodgers, 2 5 

Jacob Oliver, 2 4 Nath. Reynolds, 2 5 

Daniel Spencer, Jr., 2 2 Thos. Faulkner,- 1 11 

Nath. Spencer, ' 3 3 John Day, 1 11 

Pliillip Spencer, 2 2 Anthony Burk, 1 

Natli. Spencer, Jr., 1 8 Carpenter Bradford, 1 

Isaac Page, 1 7 John Ackley, 1 6 

William Lancaster, 9 Jona. Eddy, Jr., 10 

JohnRowell, 6 William How, 1 

Nath. McMahon, 6 John Partridge, 1 11 

Ibrook Eddy, 2 6 

EliasEddy, 2 6 £6 5 11 
Col. Jona. Eddy, 18 4 
William Eddy, 3 5 

10,619 acres wild land, a 3 £1592 5 

141 acres cleared land, a 6 42 6 

23 Oxen, £9 per yoke 103 10 

4 Hogs, 18 3 12 

19 Cows, £3 each 57 

4 



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9 young cattle 13 10 

20 Dwelling Houses or bouts 60 

3 Barns, £30 90 

1 Horse, 6 6 

£1968 3 
Twenty-six poles in the Plantation. 

Col. Jonathan Lowder made out the Tax Bills for 1791 and 
1792, for which he charged the Plantation 1 pound 10 shillings. 



B. 

Kesolve, June 29th, 1775. 
Land granted to 

Jonathan Eddy, 
Ebenezer Gardiner, 
Zebulon Row, 
William Maxwell, 
Robert Foster, 
Parker Clarke, 
At wood Fales, 
Elijah Ayer, 
William Eddy, 
Phineas Never, 
Nathaniel Reynold, 
Seth Noble, 
Samuel Rogers, 
Thomas Forkner, 
John Day, 
Anthony Burk, 
Bradford Carpenter, 
John Eckley, 
Jonathan Eddy, Jr., 
William Howe, 

9,360 



1,500 


acres. 


1,000 




750 




750 




550 




500 




450 




400 




350 




1,000 




300 




300 




300 




230 




230 




150 




150 




150 




150 




150 





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[Copy.] "New York, 21 April, 1785. 

Sir : The enclosed is a resolution of Congress. I wish it 
had been more in your favor, but it is all that can be done for 
you here at present. The Secretary of Congress has for- 
warded to the Governor of Massachusetts an ofhcial copy of 
said resolution, yet I thought it advisable to give you this 
notice ; no doubt you will observe it is not attested by the 
Secretary, (he being gone to Philadelphia) I thought it not 
material, as you may no doubt, if necessary, have a copy at- 
tested by the Secretary of Massachusetts. I wish you to 
believe that I have not been inattentive to your affairs, not- 
withstanding the resolution may not fully come up to your 
expectations. 

I am with real respect, your most obedient, 

S. HOLTEN." 

This is endorsed. Dr. Holteu's letter. 

c. 

" Penobscot Eiver, Aug-. 21st, 1790. 
Gentlemen : Sundry attempts have l^een made for a settle- 
ment between the People and myself; but all to no effect. 
When I settled here, I consented to accept of 20 pounds less 
than what was really necessary to support my family, because 
the People said they were poor ; still, to release them of the 
burden, I have been at the expense to collect great part of 
what has been collected. Very little thanks have I had for 
the trouble I have been at. I was desired to draw a Bond 
for the People to sign for my support, which was rejected 
and another drawn (unbeknown to me) which hath deprived 
me of one half of the sum proposed. I am willing to do in 
this and all cases as I would be done by ; l)ut necessity con- 
strains me to say, I must have my pay. I must further tell 
you I shall look to no other persons for a settlement but that 
Committee which covenanted with me on June 7, 178G, to give 
me seventy pounds annual salary ; what you then did is as 
binding as a note of hand. I am sorry to take any coercive 



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measures ; but I tell you again I must have mj pay imme- 
diately. I am Gentleman with clue respect 
To the Committee. Your most obedient 

humble servant 
Superscribed. Seth Noble. 

To Col. Jonathan Eddy, Maj. Eobert Treat, Capt. John 
Crosby, Mr. Elisha Nevers ; and the rest of the Committee 
chosen to make proposals to settle the Gospel on Penob- 
scot River June 7, 1786." 

Rev. Seth Noble, the first minister settled on Penobscot 

river, at what is now Bangor, was the son of Thomas and 

Sarah (Root) Noble of Westfield, Mass. ; born April 15, 

17.43. He married 1st, Hannah Barker at Mangerville, N. 

B., Nov. 30, 1775; she died at Bangor June 16, 1790. 2d 

wife, Mrs. Ruhama Emery, April 11, 1793. He says in his 

Diary : "April 10, went with Mrs. Emery to Capt. Baker's, 

and April 11th, was married to the widow Ruhama Emery." 

She died at Montgomery, Mass., 1805. 3d wife, Mrs. Mary 

Riddle, June, 1807. His children were : 

i Seth, b. August 5, 1777. Lost at sea Oct. 20. 1798—21. 

ii Joseph. June 13, 1783 ; m. Maiy Ackersou June 9, 1S12 ; died in 

Brighton, X. B., 1869— se. 86. 
iii Sarah, June 1, 1785; m. Martin Bartholomew of Montgomery, 

Mass., Xov. 1. 1804; died there Nov. 15. 183G— 51. 
iv Benjamin, .June 25, 1787; married; and died in Brighton (X. B.) 

April 12, 1860—73. 
V Hannah, Sept. 11, 1789; twice married; and died in Amity, Ohio, 

Nov. 11, 1854—65. 
vi Betsey, Nov. 23, 1793 ; m. James Pliillips June, 1808 ; and died in 

Clear Creek, 111., Sept. 2. 1850—56. 
vii Thomas, July 28, 1795 ; died July 31. 1795. 
viii Polly, Sept. 26, 1796; m. Elisha Atkins, Nov. 25, 1816; died at 

Pleasant Valley, Porter Co., Indiana. 

Mr. Noble was not a college graduate, but was a good 
Latin scholar. He was supposed to have first settled over 
the Congregational Church in Mangerville, on St. John's 
river, N. B., June 15, 1774. He Avas a patriot and a soldier 
as well as a nlinister ; and the Revolutionary war breaking 



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out he j3ed from Xevr Brunswick. He was at Machias during 
the attack on that place by the British fleet in August, 1777, 
and the Sabbath after " preached a sermon on the late event." 
In 1779. he was appointed to a mission to the Eastern Settle- 
ments, and wrote the General Court a letter of which the 

following is a copy : 

"TVoburn. June 7, 1779. 

Honored Gentlemen : I received an order for a mission to 
the eastern settlements yesterday by the hands of Col. Bald- 
win, but tind its contents so much different from what I ex- 
pected, must decline the undertaking. I was informed the 
mission was to be on the river Penobscot only, but I was mis- 
informed. There are such a variety of Islands, and other 
inhabitants contiguous to the waters, those seas are so much 
frequented by their cruisers, that I think it too dangerous an 
imdertaking for a proscribed person to accept of. I suppose 
you are not unacquainted with the amazing scarcity- of the 
necessaries of life in those parts ; add to this the reward 
offered me when laid out in provision or clothing, would not 

purchase more than dollars would in 1775. From a 

friend to those Liberties wliich God and nature hath bestowed 
on mankind, Seth Xobue. 

To the whole Court." 

Mr. Xoble is next found preaching at Augusta, 1785, where 
he preached sixteen Sabbaths, receiving therefor, £26, 10s ; 
dissatisfaction grew up, or rather the majority preferred 
another minister, and he left. He is next found on Penob- 
scot river, June 7, 1786, engaging with the Committee to 
preach there, his installation taking place Sept. 10th, 178(3, 
at Conduskeag Plantation. He with other refusrees had land 
granted in Eddiugton. His Diary says he removed his family 
to Xew Market, X. H., Xov., 1797 ; May 21, 1798, he hired 
to preach there for six mouths. Xov. 29, 1799, left Xew 
^larket for Westfield ; he supplied vacant churches in that 
\icimty until he removed to the adjoining town of Montgom- 
ery, Mass., where he was installed first pastor of the Congre- 



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gational Church, Nov. 4, 1801. He removed to Franklinton, 
Ohio, m the Spring of 1806, preaching at several places in 
the vicinity. He died Sept. 15, 1807, aged 64. 

D. 

"Hancock as. To Capt. James Budge of Bangor, in said 
County, Gentleman — Greeting : Whereas, an act passed the 
General Court, in the State of Massachusetts, February the 
25th Day, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred 
and ninety-one, incorporated into a town a certain tract of Land 
known by the name of Condiskeag plantation, together with 
the inhabitants therein, by the name of Bangor ; and called 
on me to issue a warrant to some suitable inhabitant of Ban- 
gor, to warn a meeting of the inhaljitants at some convenient 
time and place, to choose such oiEcers as towns are by law 
required to choose in the months of March and April, annu- 
ally. Therefore, in the Name of the Commonwealth you are 
Required to warn the above said inhabitants to meet at some 
convenient time and Place for the aforesaid purposes, and this 
shall be your Sufficient Warrant for so Doing. Given under 
my hand and seal this 25th Day of February, in year 1792. 
JoNA. Eddy, Justice of the Peace." 

"Bangor, March the 12th, 1792. 
In obedience to the within warrant to me Directed, I have 
warned the within named Inhabitants to meet at the Dwelling 
house of Major Robert Treat, on Thursday, the 22d day of 
March. James Budge." 

This is the original, but there was some mistakes in Col. 
Eddy's dates. 



E. 

"Philadelphia, March 13, 1800. 
Dear Sir : I have not nor shall I forget to pay all due 
attentions to your business. The House of Representatives 



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have passed a new Post Office Bill in which provision is made 
to extend the Post road from Bucktown to Eddytown, and I 
shall recommend you for post master at that place, and be- 
cause I think you a very honest man. 

I am pleased to hear that the Hon. Caleb Strong is talked 
of for Governor of our State. 

I am dear Sir with much esteem yours, 

Silas Lee. 

P. S. — I hope Mr. Strong will be voted for generally with 
you, and he will be supported throughout the whole District. 
Jona. Eddy, Esquire, Eddytown, Maine." 



F. 

"Philadelphia, May 9, 1800. 

My Dear Sir : I have the pleasure to inform you that the 

Commissioners have reported in your favor, and a Bill has 

been before us and is passed to a third reading, granting you 

one thousand two hundred and eighty acres of the Western 

Lands. The value of this land I can not now tell you, some 

say more, some less. But you are not to get the grants till 

the second Tuesday ot January next, and it is probable I may 

see you between that and the present time. 

I am with much esteem yours, 

Silas Lee. 
Col. Jona. Eddy." 

"City of Washington, Feb. 24, 1801. 
Dear Sir : I have the pleasure of informing you that a 
Bill has passed and now become a Law, providing for you and 
others ; inclosed you have a copy thereof. 

This Bill was negotiated in the Senate the past session, and 
that was the reason why the business was not brought to a 
close. 

Yours with much esteem, 

Silas Lee. 
Jona. Eddy, Esq., Eddytown, Maine." 



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G. 

Marriages by Col Jona. Eddy. 

The elates and names I have copied from Col. Eddy's own 
list ; the places of residence from the Clerk's certificates. The 
town clerks of Bangor, for several years after its incorpora- 
tion, persisted in calling it Condeeskeag Plantation. 

1791, April 21, John Rowell to Molly Harthorn, both of 
Penobscot River. 

1791, Sept. 8, John Mansel to Jenny Mahaney. 

1791, August, Jacob Cook to Molly Hathorn, both of 
Orrington. 

1792, April 30, Levi Lancaster to Rebecca Mann, both of 
Eddington PL 

1793, Dec. 25, Wm. Tibbetts of Kenduskeag PI. to Mrs. 
Sarah Thombs of Orrington. 

1793, Dec. 27, Joseph Clark Jr. to Mrs. Jane Potter, both 
of Condeskeag PI. 

1793, Dec. 27, Arad Mayhew to Elizabeth Clark, both of 
Condeskeag PI. 

1794, Aug. 31, Robert Hichborn Jr. of Bangor to Miss 
Jean Thoms of Orrington. 

1794, Sept. 4, Enoch Eayres to widow Lydia Lovitt, 
both of Cobenton PI. 

1795, July 16, Ben Spencer to Hannah Stanley, both of 
Eddington PI. 

1795, August 19, Robert Campbell to Betsey Knapp, both 
of Orrington. 

1796, Jan. 26, Edward Garland to Abigail Freese, both of 
Cobentown PL 

1796, Jan. 28, James Campbell of Orrington to Peggy 
Boyd of Bangor. 

1796, Oct. 11, Wm. Spencer to Iluldah Page, both of 
Cobentown PL 

1796, Oct. 18, Joseph Potter to Rhoda Man. 

1796, Nov. 2, Stephen Page to Anna Eayres, both of 
Cobentown PL 



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1797, Francis Robisko to Phebe Eayres, both of Coben- 
towu PL 

1798, June 11, Joseph Inman Jr. to Lettice Holmes, both 
of Cobentown PL 

1798, August 2, Theodore Trafton to Margaret Dennet, 
both of Bangor. 

1798, Oct. 27, Jonathan Snow to Mary Tebbetts, both of 
Kenduskeag PL 

1798, Aug. 16, Edmund Hartford to Hannah Oliver, both 
of Eddington PL 

1798, Oct. 31, Wm. Reed of Cobenton PL to Jenny Orcutt 
of Orrington. 

1798, David Rowell to Nancy Grant. 

1799, John Brooks of Cobenton PL to Hannah Buzzell of 
Sunkhaze. 

1799, Wm. Cook of Orrington to Nancy Cogswell of 
Eddington PL 

1799, July 6, Gates Harthon to Hannah Mann, both of 
Sunkhaze. 

1799, Richard Lancaster to Thankful Clark of Bangor — 
Pub. Oct. 5. 

1799, John Brown Jr. of Belfast to widow Sarah Nesmith 
of Bangor. 

1800, March 20, Nath. McMahan to widow Nancy Clapp, 
both of Eddington PL 

1800, Oct. 27,. Moses Spencer of Plantation No. 4 to Sarah 
Grant of Eddington PL 

1800, Dec. 25, Gideon Horton to Miss Temperance Ken- 
ney, both of Orrington. 

1800, Dec. 26, Joseph Eddy to Elizabeth Rowe, both of 
Eddington PL 

1800, John Minot of Canaan to Elizabeth Palmer of Bangor. 

1800, David Burton to Elizabeth McMahan, both of Ed- 
dington PL 

1800, Dec, "Wm. Cortigan to Rebecca Eayres, both of 
Sunkhaze. 

1801, Gideon Knap to Sarah Mann, both of Orrington. 



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1801, Isaac Freese Jr. of Stillwater to Rebecca Havthorn 
of Bangor. 

1803, Dec. 11, Elisha Row to Leonah Mann. 

1802, Nov. 20, Samuel Bailey Jr. to Katy Dudley, both 
of Sunkhaze PI. 

[Jeremiah Colbum was "•Clark" of Colbumtown Plantation, but he 
invariably spelled it Cobentown. 

The printed account of the Orono Centennial Celebration of March 3d, 
1874, omits the fact that Orono was first organized as Colbornton Planta- 
tion and so continued for some years.] 



H. 

Joseph Junin, one of the Eaely Merchants on Penob- 
scot River. 

In Kidder's History of the Revolutionary War in Eastern 
Maine and Nova Scotia, page 230, is a letter from Col. John 
Allan, Superintendent of the Eastern Indians, to the Council 
of Mass., dated Machias, Sept. 22, 1777, which says : " * * 
I find there is a French merchant (Mons. Lunier) settled at 
the head of Penobscot with a British Commission to treat 
with the Indians he uses every Art and means to turn them 
they have had many Supplj^s from him and I fear they have 
given (him) much Intelligence from time to time." In an- 
other letter dated Machias, Sept. 25, 1777, (Kidder, page ) 
Col. Allan says ; " * * * Since my return from St. 
Johns I have had several conferences with the Penobscot 
Indians, one in particular, when we Exchanged several strings 
of wampum, when I perceived from what they said and other 
authentic accounts, that some of the most Diabolical proceed- 
ings have been carried on on that River. Great Embezzle- 
ments of Publick Money as well as imposing on the Indians, 
which with the close attention of Mons. Lunier, the British 
Agent on the head of the river gave to his business, I saw the 
Body must soon be driven otf." Col. Allan says under date 
of Machias, Oct. 20, 1779, (Kidder, page ) : "Sir, I had 
the Honor of writing you the 28th inst., by Capt. De Badie 



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who went in Company with Col. (Jonathan) Lowder of 
Penobscot, by the Lakes, 130 miles back with four Indians in 
two Birch Canoes. But very Unfortunately the whole Fell 
into the hands of the Enemy. About the 12th Instant on the 
River Penobscot some Canadians, Indians and French to the 
number of twenty-six under the direction of Capt. Lunier 
who lives on the Carryins: place between Penobscot and St. 
Lawrence. * * * This Capt. Lunier the Hon. Board may 
remember that I mentioned his name several times since my 
Being here, he is an active, Vigilent fellow and great Influ- 
ence among the Indians. I was very anxious to have him 
Dislodged on my first coming here which (could) have easily 
been done then. But he has now a number of Regular Troops 
and Canadians with him. I dread him most at present and by 
his late success no doubt he will Endeavor to harass these 
Settlements." 

There can be no doubt but that the Capt. Lunier referred 
to was the same man who, as Joseph Junin, was murdered in 
his store in Condeskeag Plantation, Feb. 18, 1791. Jona. 
Eddy, Justice of the Peace, issued his warrant to Abraham 
Tourtellot, Constable, Feb. 19, 1791, to "summon and warn 
thirteen men, good and lawful men, * * * to view the body 
of Joseph Junin, then lying dead at the house of Jacob Den- 
net, &c." The Jury were : Capt. Thomas Canip]>ell, Maj. 
Robert Treat, Capt. James Buclge, William Plympton, Robert 
Hichborn, Andrew Webster, Capt. John Rider, John Smart, 
William Hasey, Elijah Smith, Nathaniel Harlow and Al)raham 
Allen, and were paid six shillings each. The Jury found 
probable cause "that one Louis Paronneau, a nephew to the 
deceased, is the Person that hath committed this murder." 
Whereupon Jonathan Eddy and Simeon Fowler, Esquires, 
issued their warrant Oct. 23, for the arrest of Paronneau. 
He was arrested by Joshua Woodman, Deputy Sherilf. I 
give a copy of a letter now before me : 

"His Excellency the Governor the Hon. Council of the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. May it please your Excel- 
lency and Honours, Inclosed is an Inquisition taken at Con- 



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deskeag Pbintation, In the County of Hancock, on the 19th 
day of Feb., in the year of our LORD, one thousand seven 
hundred and ninety-one, on the Body of a French Gentleman, 
known by the name of Joseph Junin, who was found inhu- 
manly murdered in his Bed in his store, in night of the eigh- 
teenth of February, by some Person or Persons unknown, by 
the Discharge of a Gun which forced two Balls through his 
brains as he lay sleeping on his Bed ; and Having Probable 
Cause b}^ the Oaths of the Jury of Inquest that one Louis 
Paronneau, a nephew of the Deceased, is the Person that hath 
perpetrated this murder. Have Issued a Warrant and appre- 
hended the said Louis, And had him under examination, and 
liave sent him by jMittimus to Gaol, and as the property of 
these two Persons might not be lost I have taken, with the 
assistance of six men Under Oath, (viz.) Maj. Robert Treat, 
Mr. Robert Hichborn, Mr. William Plympton, Capt. James 
Budge, Mr. Jacol) Dennet and John Smart (an account) of 
all their Effects which could be found here at his store that 
the Consul of France or who ever may have a Right to said 
things may be acquainted therewith and as there is more 
effects lodged in other Places on this River which is not taken 
account of yet but shall as soon as Possible. Therefore some 
further directions from your Excellency and Honours will be 
most gratefully acknowledged and am with sincerity your 
most obedient Humble Servant, Jona. Eddy. 

Condeskeag Plantation, 23 Feb. 1791." 

Paronneau asserted that his Uncle was killed by three 
Indians, and John Emery, Jr., Elisha Mayhew, John Dennet, 
John Emery, Jacob Dennet, J^nd others were employed to 
search the woods for the Indians, but none were found. In 
the speech of Rev. Mark Trafton, at the Bangor Centennial 
Celebration, 1870, see printed Report, page 91, says : "The 
first murder committed in this town was of an old Frenchman 
by the name of Junion, who was a trader from Castiue and 
had a log house and store where the steam mill now stands, 
near the depot. A nephew of his came into my grandfather's 
(Jacob Dennet) one evening, wild and excited, saying the 
Indians were ai'ound, and he feared they would kill his uncle. 
He soon left, and the report of a gun was heard, and on going 
to the store the old man was found dead, but no doubt existed 
that the nephew was the murderer ; he was sent to France for 
trial." 



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This must be an error. At this time Hancock County was 
a new County, probably without a Jail, so that the prisoner 
was sent to Pownalboro Jail. I find in Maine Historical 
Society's Collections, Vol. 6, pp. 49, 50, the following : 
"Lewis Parouneau was indicted on a charge of murder of his 
Uncle, on the Penobscot River, what is now Bangor. The 
motive assigned was to gain possession of the money of his 
uncle. He was tried at Pownalboro, in Lincoln County. His 
counsel were John Gardiner, a distinguished lawyer on the 
Kennebec, and Gen. William Lithgow, Jr. The defence was 
managed with much skill by his counsel. The French Consul, 
then resident at Boston, came down to attend the trial and 
exerted all the influence he could command in tavor of his 
countryman. The Jur^'' returned a verdict of acquittal, 
although there was strong circumstantial evidence of his guilt. 
The trial was in the old Court House, on the banks of the 
Kennebec River, in what is now Dresden." 

I have a "true copy of the Inventory of his goods, Feb. 
23, 1791, Attest: Robert Hichborn, Jr.," with a receipt at- 
tached, given to Jona. Eddy, Esquire, by Thomas Phillips, 
as Attorney of "Monsieur De'Latombe, Consul General of 
France." The goods, consisted of a complete stock of just 
such goods as an Indian trader of that day would want, with 
not many changes to suit nowadays : Green and red baize, 
wide ribbons of all colors, yellow hat bands, 27 plumes, black 
feathers, blue broadcloth, blankets, Indian guns with large 
quantities of ammunition, furs of all kinds, and rum sand- 
wiched in between everything else. 

The Jury of Inquest, the men who went into the woods to 
search for the Indians, officers' fees for taking care of prisoner, 
Jacob Dennet for his trouble, and "Owen Madden for three 
days' writing, 18 shillings," were all paid out of the estate of 
the murdered man. Feb. 19, 1791, "John Holyoke, Bryant 
Bradley, Solomon Hathorn, John Thoms, and John Emery 
certify that they have 'Decently laid out the body of Joseph 
Junin for Interment.' " Junin was an Indian trader and 



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"without cloulit the same man ^vho acted as British Ageut on 
Penobscot River durino- the Revohitionarv War. 



I. 

Eastport, Passamaquoddy, April 30, 1802. 
Dear Sir : I just saw Xick Simmons from Cumberland, 
he Informed me that about a fortnight since he- was in com- 
pany with your son Jonathan, who was then in Good Health ; 
this is what I anticipated in my last, and I accordingly Con- 
gratulate you on the Circumstance. Excuse much haste. 



I am your Obet Serv 



Lewis Delesderxlee. 



Colonel and Dr. Phixeas Xevers, 
The first physician of Bangor, was a resident of Manger^^lle, 
Sunbury County, now Xew Brunswick, on the St. John river. 
He was one of a Committee chosen by the inhabitants '* to 
make Immediate application to the Congress or General 
Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay for reUef under their 
present Distressed Circumstances." (See Kidder's History 
of Revolutionary "NA'ar in Eastern Maine and Xova Scotia, 
j)age 63.) 

Aid was granted to the Patriots on the St. John's River by 
the General Court, June 26, 1776. At this time he was 
called Dr. Xevers, and was at various places between Man- 
gerville and Machias from May 21, 1777, to June 18, 1777, 
when Col. John Allan. Superintendent of the Eastern In- 
dians, in a letter of that date to the Council of ^Massachusetts 
Bay, (Kidder, page 195.) says: - * * * Xhe bearer, 
Doct. Xevers. who is a Person who has Suflered the greatest 
hardships, the most part of his Interest carried oil* by Mr. 
Gould and himself Lyal>le every day to be made a Prisoner, 
his Character in Private Life as well as his zeal for his Coun- 
try, Being a Great Instrunieut iu Keeping the Indians Quiet 



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in Furnishiag them with Provisions, &c., merits the friend- 
ship of every person concerned, must therefore recommend 
him to your Honours favors." 

At the attack of the British fleet upon Machias, August, 
1777, he was present and acting as Lieut. Cohinel in Col. 
Jonathan Eddy's Regiment. I copy a letter which I found 

in Massachusetts Archives : 

"Boston, Sept. 18, 1777. 

Hon. Gentlemen : I take this Earliest opportunity to 
Return a'ou my hearty thanks for the Honor you did me in 
appointing me Lieut. Col. of the Battalion intended to be 
raised under the command of Col. Eddy, and more especially 
for j'our late appointment as Lieut. Col. over the Troops 
ordered to be raised for the defence of Machias. I hope I 
shall be able to conduct my self in such a manner as will give 
satistiiction to your Honours and the Publick. Being obliged 
by the tools of Tyranny either to acknowledge George the 
third of Grate Briton my Rightful Lord and Sovereign and 
bear arms against my brethren of the United States when 
they pleased, or leave my family and interest at their tender 
mercies, (which is cruelty) I chose the latter, and have been 
several months spending the little cash I brought of with me. 
I am now rather short of that article, and am to beg that 
3'our Honours would be pleased to lend me such small sum 
as may be neccssar}' in accomplishing the business your 
honours have been or may be pleased to appoint me to do, 
and you will again much oblige 

Your Honours most Humble Servant 

Phes^eas Xevees." 

To the Hon. Council and the House of Representatives of the 
State of the Massachusetts Bay. 

In Col. John Allan's letter, Machias, Oct. 12, 1777, (Kid- 
der, page 238,) he says: "* * * Lieut. Col. Xevers 
has not yet arrived, nor have I received any Intelligence from 
him. I doubt whether he will raise his men before the time 
is out." 



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I have no further account of his military services. Some- 
time after this he removed his family to Penobscot river, to 
what is now Bangor, where he practised his profession. I 
have an old writ wherein John Nevers, for estate of Phineas 
Nevers, sued Thomas Low of Bangor, for medical services 
rendered in 1785. As one of the Refugees from Nova Scotia 
during the Revolutionary War, he was a grantee of lands in 
what is now Eddington. I find those lands taxed in Eddy- 
town Plantation to estate of Phineas Nevers, deceased, from 
1791 to 1795. He lived near where Coombs' wharf was. 
The Rev. Mr. Noble held his first meeting in 1786 in the Dr. 
Nevers' house. He probably died in October, 1785. Rev. 
Mr. Noble, in a letter to his wife at New Market, N. H., 
from Kennebec river, dated Feb. G, 1786, informs her that 
"I hear and believe it is true, Col, Nevers died in October 
last." Mr. Noble in his Diary, July 25, 1787, recorded the 
fact, "Removed my family to the widow Nevers' House." 

K. 

Major Robert* Treat, son of Joseph* and Mary Treat of 

Boston, born there July 14, 1752. His first wife was Mary 

Partridge, to whom he was married Nov. 28, 1774; she was 

born in Haverhill, Mass., May 5, 1757, and died in Bangor 

June 10, 1800. He married second, Mary, daughter of Nath. 

Gale, Feb. 28, 1804. His children, all born in Bangor, were : 

i Josepli, b. Dec. 18, 1775; unmarried. Died 1853. 

ii John, Feb. 1, 1777. Died 1777. 

iii Robert, Aug. 1, 1779. Drowned on liis way to Boston in a vessel 

October 19, 1798. 
iv John Partridge, July 21, 1783; m. Rosanna Duggins 1813. Lived 

and died in Enfield 1857. 
V Polly, Oct. 1, 1785. Died 1792. 

vi Joshua, August 6, 1787 ; unmarried. Died Sept. 1, 1821. 
vii Betsey, June 24, 1791. Died same year, 
viii Samuel, June 28, 1795. Died same year, 
ix Robert Henry, May 18, 1798 ; unmarried. Died Enfield 1843. 
X Nath. Gale, March 13, 1807. 
xi Mary H., April 23. 1809. 
xii Elizabeth Holyoke, January 19, 1802. 



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Joseph Treat* was son of Rev. SamueP Treat of Eastham, 
on Cape Cod, who was son of Governor Robert' Treat of 
Connecticut, who was son of Richard Treat the original 
settler in Massachusetts, and afterward at Weathersfield, 
Conn. 

Major Treat came to Bangor about 1773 ; lived at Treat's 
Falls in a house built by Jedediah Preble. Said by some to 
have kei3t first store in Bangor, but probably was the second 
merchant in Bangor. Built the first vessel at Bangor, just 
below the Penjejawock stream, which was then the court end 
of the town. He died May 27, 1824. 

L. 

The Family of Amos Bailey of Milford. 

Amos Bailey, born Sept. 26th, 1785, Massachusetts; mar- 
ried Sally Ballard; she born Oct. 14, 1788, at Bucksport, 
Me. (?) Children: 

Anna, b. May 17, 1810; m. Alfred O. Ingersoll, Lincoln, Me. They have 
the family bible ; address him for further particulars. 

Polly; March 31, 1812. Died young in Milford. 

Amos, Jan. 31, 1814. Bay City, Mich., at present time. 

Sally, Nov. 23, 1815. Died in Milford when young. 

Jeremiah J., August 29,1817. Died in Bangor. Married and family ; 
4 children, 2 alive. 

Caroline, July 9, 1819 ; m. Jonathan Eddy. Seven children. 

Mark Trafton, May 2, 1821. Detroit, Mich., family there. 

Eleanor Bird, Oct. 28, 1823; m. George W. H. Brown of Lincoln. 
Family in Mich. Died. 

Joanna Bass, Oct. 9, 1825. Died in Milford or Sunkhaze. 

Mary H., March 31, 1828 ; m. Joseph Heald. 3 children, 2 now alive. 

Sarah Ann, Feb. 18, 1830. Died in Port Huron, Mich. 

Samuel, April 23, 1832. Died in Michigan. 

Adaline. Jan. 3, 1834; m. A. L. Stebbins of Port Huron, Mich., where 
they now live. They have 2 children, a sou and daughter. 

M. 

Col. Gabriel Johonnot was son of Zechary and Elizabeth 
(Quincy) Johonnot of Boston, where he was born in 1748. 
He married first, Martha, daughter of Rev. Samuel Cooper 
of Boston, 1766, and second, Sarah Bradstreet, 1774. He 



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had one son, Samuel Cooper, by his first wife, who graduated 
at Harvard College in 1783 ; settled in Portland, where he 
practised law, and died in Demarara, 1806. 

Col. Johonnot was a merchant in Boston. In 1773 he was 
one of a committee to wait on consignees of several cargoes 
of Tea, shijjped to Boston by the East India Company, and 
request of them not to land or pay duties on the Tea. He 
was Lieut. Colonel 14th Regiment of Massachusetts, in Con- 
tinental Army, known as Col. Glover's. August 15, 1774, he 
was chairman of a Committee appointed by the Cadets " to 
proceed to Salem and return to Governor Gage the Standard 
he had presented them." In the Massachusetts Archives is 
an Order of Council during the Revolutionary war, "that 
Col. Johonnot is ordered to report what progress he made 
relating to exchange of prisoners with Lord Howe." 

In 1784 he was living in the town of Penobscot, (now 
Castine) where he was prominent in town affiiirs, and was the 
second Representative of the town to the General Court of 
Massachusetts. He was a prominent Free Mason at Penob- 
scot, having been one of the charter members of Hancock 
Lodge at its formation, and its first Senior Warden. (See 
Wheeler's History of Castine, page 225.) 

He removed to Hampden before 1799, where he was Secre- 
tary of Rising Virtue Lodge of Masons in 1802, and for some 
- years after. 

In 1799 he had a controversy with Eliphalet Perkins of 
Orriugton, and struck him. A few days after Perkins had 
him arrested and carried before Col. Jona. Eddy on a charge 
of assault, &c., when Col. Johonnot produced a document, of 
which I give a copy, and which stopped further proceedings : 
"Hancock ss : Orriugton, August 5, 1799. Personally 
appeared Gabriel Johonnot, Esquire, and complained of him- 
self for a breach of the peace in having struck Eliphalet Per- 
kins, on Thursday evening, the first day of August instant, 
and paid a fine of twelve shillings, or two dollars, as a satis- 
faction to the government of Massachusetts for said breach 
of the peace. Simeon Fowler, Justice of the Peace." 



67 

I give a copy of a letter now before me : 

"Hampden, Dec. 2cl, 1796. 

Sir : Yours of the 30th ultimo was delivered to me hy 
Mr. David Read ; in ansA\^er to the contents would observe, 
that my letter to Capt. Read was founded on the direct and 
full assertion of Joshua Eayres, the father, and corroborated 
by his son, and coloring of support from another person. 
Mr. Eayres asserted positively that when he settled and paid 
for the cattle it was done by Mr. Read's giving the fullest 
encouragement that the warrant would be quashed and all 
further proceedings therein stopped, asserting that he was the 
prosecutor, but should not nor would not appear to support 
the complaint ; and that you said if they settled it and paid 
for the hay you would warrant nothing more would be done 
about the warrant. If this had been a true state of the case, 
I conceive it would have been extorting money in the fullest 
degree with agravated circumstances — as I have been misin- 
formed nothing further need be added on that head. Eayres 
pressed to know if nothing could be done to save his children 
from punishment. I told him no, the only thing to be done 
was for them to come forward and give security for their ap- 
pearance at S. J. Ct ; when there throw themselves on the 
mercy of the Court, and (as you observe) the having made 
satisfaction for the injury, would no doul)t go in mitigation of 
the punishment. There requires examples of rigor, that the 
people in that quarter may see that the laws must be observed, 
and that if they will not quietly submit to them they must do 
it by compulsion, and with the addition of fines, imprison- 
ment, whipping, &c., &c. 

1 am Sir, your Humble Servant, G. Johonnot. 

Timo. Langdon, Esq." 

This letter is written in a fair, even hand, and directed to 
"Timothy Langdon, Esquire, Stillwater." 

Col. Johonnot died in Hampden, Oct. 20, 1820—72. His 
will Oct. 5, 1820, proved March 6, 1821, was witnessed by 
John Abbot, John Godfrey and Sarah Crosby. 



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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 

Penobscot, April 23, 1787. 

The Deposition of Jeremiah Colburn of Penobscot River 
in the County of Lincoln, Gentleman, on oath testifieth and 
saith, that on or about the 28th Day of November, 1777, 
John Marsh of Penobscot, in the County aforesaid. Entered 
on an Island called and known here by the name of Marshe's 
Island and took up and settled on a Certain Lot of Land for 
A Farm for himself; which lot includes a mill Privelege. 
That on or about the Last of May, 1784, Messi's. Levy Brad- 
ley, Joseph More and Daniel Jemison, all of Penobscot in 
said County, Did then and there agree with the said John 
Marsh to Build a Saw mill upon the s^l Privelidge included in 
within the Lot which the stl John had Settle as aforesaid. 
And the s^ Levy, Joseph and Daniel, Did also agree with the 
sd Marsh to Relinquish to him one Quarter Part of one saw 
immiediately after finished in the mill which they so built, 
upon Conditions that the said Marsh should Relinquish 10 
Acres of Land included within said Lot so as to include sd 
mill Previledge and upon the former conditions being fulfilled 
upon the sd Levy, Joseph and Daniel's Part. Then the sd 
Marsh was to give A Deed of sd 10 acres as soon as he. ob- 
tained a Deed from Government. Jere^h Colburn. 
Lincoln, ss. — Penobscot, April 23, 1787. 

Then Jeremiah Colburn Personally Appeared and made 
oath to the above Deposition. 

Before me, Jonathan Eddy, Justice of the Peace. 

o. 

Boston, 3 Feb. 1801. 
Dear Sir : I shall in the first place inform jou that I am 
well and also my Family. As to the Petition of the Inhabi- 
tants of Eddington plantation it has been taken up and Com- 
mitted and they have put it over, but I shall endeavor to 
have it called up again and get the Business so forwarded as 



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to have an order of Notice if it is Possible. I wish you to 
wrig'ht to me as soon as you can make it convenient and in- 
form me whether the House of Mr. (or Mrs.) Clapp is sold 
or like to be and whether it is probable that I can have a 
shelter in it next Spring, and if I can not, whether there is 
any other House that it is likely I can get for a short time, 
till I Build. If not, I must take up my Quarters at Kendus- 
keag. My Compliments to all Friends. A Letter directed 
to me at Belcher's will reach me in season. 

I am Dear Sir yours, Pakk Holland. 

Jona. Eddy Esq. 

P. 

"To all persons To whom this Protest shall Come, Know 
ye that I, Will"^ Boyd of Bangor, in County of Hancock, 
Shipwright, on the 23d of April, 1792, Did enter into Con- 
tract with Doctor Oliver Mann and Hudson Bishop, Both of 
Penobscot, (Castine) in Said County, to Build for them A 
vessel of one Hundred tuns or thereabouts, as will appear by 
an Instrument By them Subscribed, Baring Date as Specified 
above, in which Instrument the Said Oliver Mann and Hudson 
Bishop engage on their part to furnish me with every Material 
to enable me to Carry on said vessel in three weeks from the 
date of the above said Instrument. But to my great Damage 
they have not furnished me with Sufiicient Timl^er and other 
necessaries according to said Contract to Carry on said work. 
Wherefore I, the Said Boyd, hereby protest against the pro- 
ceedings of said Mann and Bishop, and against all Costs, 
Delays, Detentions, or any Damage of any name or nater 
that I may Receive or Sustain thereby. Whereunto I have 
Set my hand this 25th day of June, 1792. 

Willm Boyd, 
and carpenters that wrought on said vessel, 

James Boyd, 
William Patten, 
Egbert Cajvipbell." 



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Q. 

Dr. William Ware was son of John" and Mehetable 
(Chapin) Ware of Wrentham, Mass., born July, 4, 1697. 
First wife was Zebiah Sweeting, daughter of Lewis and 
Zebiah Sweeting, married Oct., 30, 1728; She died Nov. 1, 
1732. Second wife, Anna Hodges, Sept. 27, 1733 ; she died 

June 35, 1755, aged 51. Third wife, Lydia . 1729, 

Feb. 19, he bought a farm of John Finney, in Norton. 1734, 
he was admitted to church in Norton from Wrentham. 1742, 
wife Anna admitted to church in Norton. 

He was a "Practioner of Physic" for several years, and 
kept a public house from 1728 to 1740. In 1750, Nov. 24, 
he sold out and moved to Dighton, where he died. His grave 
stone says, "Dr. William Ware, died June 11, 1764, aged 67 
years lacking 22 days." Second wife's grave stone says, 
"Anna, wife of Dr. William Ware, departed this life June 
25, 1755, aged 50 years, 4 months and 21 days." 1764, his 
will in Bristol County Records, names wife Lydia ; Children — 
William, George, Benjamin, Mary Eddy, Lucy Talbot, 
Abigail, Lydia. His children were : 

Mary, b. Oct. IG, 1729; m. Capt. Jonathan Eddy. 

Lucy ; m. Nathaniel Talbot, Jr. 

William, April 27, 1731. 

John, Oct. 23, 1732; died 27 Oct., 1732. 

George, August 26, 1734, "a Munday about sunrise." 

Benjamin, March 20, 173G-7, "a Sabbath day evening.'' 

Anna, July 10, 1741, "being a Friday about sunsetting;" died 25 Sept., 
1741. Joseph, 1756. Lydia, 1758. Abigail, 1760. 

K. 

[Copy.] "A Return of the Refugees of Nova Scotia, who 
left that Province in the year 1776, with their former and 
present places of Residence in the United States or Else- 
where, June, 1785 : 

Names. Former Residence. Now Resident. 

1 Jonathan Eddy, Massachusetts, Mass. 

2 Capt. Zebulon Rowe, do do 

3 Colo. Plaineas Nevers, do do 

4 Mr. Ebene^er Garner, (Gardner) do do 



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Names. 


Former Residence. 


Now Resident. 


5 Mr. William Maxwell, 


Massachusetts, 


Mass. 




6 Autliouy Burk, 


do 


do 




7 Thomas Falkiier, 


do 


do 




8 Mr. Robert Foster, 


do 


do 




9 Mr. William Howe, 


do 


do 




10 Capt. ]Srath. Reynolds, 


do 


do 




11 Lieut. Bradford Carpenter, (or Car- do 


do 




12 Rev. Mr. Noble, penter Bradford) do 


do 




13 Jonathan Eddy, (Jr.) 


do 


do 




14 Jonathan Severs, 


do 


do 


dead. 


15 William Eddy, 


do 


do 


dead. 


16 Ibrook Eddy, 


do 


do 




17 Elias Eddy, 


do 


do 




IS Jolui Day, 


do 


do 




19 Edward Cole, 


do 


do 


dead. 


20 Dr. Parker Clark, 


do 


do 




21 Ambrose Cole, 


do 


do 




22 Daniel Thorrington, (Thornton) 


do 


do 


dead. 


23 Edward Falkner, 


do 


Nova Scotia. 


dead. 


24 Zebulon Rowe, Jr., 


Nova Scotia, 


Mass. 




25 John Eckley, 


Pennsylvania, 


do 




26 Samuel Sliarii, 


do 




dead. 


27 Matthew Sharp, 


do 




dead. 


28 Joseph Sharp, 


do 


Penn. 




29 Robert Sharp. 


do 


Nova Scotia. 




30 Josiah Throop, 


New York, 


New York. 




31 Jonas Earle, 


do 


do 




32 Jonas Earle, Jr., 


do 


do 




33 Mr. Daniel Earle, 


do 


do 




34 Robert Earle, 


do 


do 




35 ISTath. Earle, 


do 


do 




36 Mr. Atwood Fails, (Fales) 


Conn. 


Mass. 




37 Obadiah Ayer, 


do 




dead. 


38 Capt. John Starr, 


do 


Conn. 




39 Mr. Elijah Ayres, 


do 


do 




40 Elijah Ayer, Jr., 


do 


Mass. 




41 Deacon Simeon Chester, 


do 


Conn. 




42 Samuel Connor, (Connover) 


do 




dead. 


43 Samuel Fales, 


do 


Mass. 




44 Capt. Samuel Rogers, 


Rhode Island, do 




45 George Rogers, 


do 




dead. 


40 Capt. Mr. Kellhem, (Amasa) 


do 




dead. 


47 John Kellliem, 


do 




dead. 


48 David Jenks, 


do 


Mass. 




49 Christopher Pain, 


do 




dead. 


50 Lieut. James Avery, 


Conn. 


Mass. 





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Names. 


Former Residence. 


Now Resident. 


51 John Allan, 


Nova 


Scotia. 




52 Edward Handsom, (Hampsou) 




do 




53 John Fulton, 




do 


Nova Scotia. 


54 John McGown, 




do 


Mass. 


55 Nath. Crawford, 




do 


Nova Scotia. 


56 John Sibley, 




do 


Conn. 


57 Mr. Creeth, 




do 


Nova Scotia. 


58 John Steward, 




do 


do 


59 Lewis LeDernier, 




do 


Mass. 


60 David Treferil, (Terrill) 




do 


do 


61 Thos. Tumbull, 




do 


On-known. 



dead. 



The within are those who left the Province of Nova Scotia 
in 1776 ; the remaining part of the sixty-three persons I can- 
not ascertain, either their Names or places of Abode. 

Jon A. Eddy." 

Col. Eddy was indefatigable in his efibrts to obtain grants 
of land from Congress and Massachusetts for the refugees 
from Nova Scotia. He made many journeys and looked at 
several tracts of land before settling down at what is now 
Eddington, Me. I give a copy of his account, &c. : 
"An account of cash layd out and other supplies for the proprietors since 

the year and in that year 1784. 
To one petition for (the next word is obscure but I call it. J. w. P.) 
Grand Manan and journey to look at it, 
My time in that journey, 37 days, £11 18 

To one other journey to Congress, expenses of that journey in cash, 12 15 7 
My time and horse, 31 days, 9 6 

To one petition for land at Penobscot and journey to look it out, 

my time, 13 10 

To 7 journeys from Penobscot to Boston in order to get it laid out, 40 12 

1787. Laid out by Mr. Titcomb, (Samuel*) his bill was, 20 11 

2 chain men, 2 14 

2 more men as waiters, 2 14 

to snow shoes and mogasins, 3 

to provisions for said men, 6 10 

petition to Congress, 18 

My expense at Boston and waiting at Boston on the Governor, 

* * * letters to Congress, 1 10 

1790. £105 1 7 

Literest on the aTjove, 37 16 6 " 

* Mr. Samuel Titcomb was first Surveyor of Eddington, 1794. 



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For .James Budge read James Bridge. 

Caleb Eddy was a Deacon — not married, Ac. 

Read Charles G. Richardson, wit Charles S. 

Widow Sylvester Eddy married Ezra Richardson April 11, 1831, not 

April 30, 18G0. 
Read Charles G. Richardson instead of Charles S. 
To "This bill was negatived," add "in the Senate." 

57. Two lives from bottom, read Wm. Costigan to Rebecca Eayres. 

58. Read Jeremiah Colburn was Clerk, Ac. 




AUG -0 isy 



